lymphocytic leukemia

noun

: leukemia of either of two types marked by an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells (such as lymphocytes) which accumulate especially in bone marrow, lymphoid tissue, and circulating blood

called also lymphatic leukemia

Examples of lymphocytic leukemia in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Types of chronic leukemia include chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML). —Doru Paul, Health, 7 Dec. 2024

Cayden Addison, a seven-year-old Black boy battling a rare form Philadelphia chromosome acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), has had two donors back out on him. —Pia Velasco, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024

Donovan was first diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a strain of the disease that starts in white blood cells and affects bone marrow, in 2000. —CBS News, 26 Oct. 2024

In 2002, researchers first identified the role dysfunctional microRNAs play in disease through patients with a type of blood and bone marrow cancer called chronic lymphocytic leukemia. —Andrea Kasinski, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1956, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

lymphocytic leukemia

noun

variants also lymphatic leukemia or lymphoid leukemia

: leukemia of either of two types marked by an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells (as lymphocytes) which accumulate in bone marrow, lymphoid tissue (as of the lymph nodes and spleen), and circulating blood see acute lymphoblastic leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia