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Definition of Cancer of the blood
1. Noun. Malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer.
Generic synonyms: Cancer, Malignant Neoplastic Disease
Specialized synonyms: Acute Leukemia, Chronic Leukemia, Lymphocytic Leukemia, Histiocytic Leukaemia, Histiocytic Leukemia, Monoblastic Leukaemia, Monoblastic Leukemia, Monocytic Leukaemia, Monocytic Leukemia, Myeloblastic Leukemia, Granulocytic Leukemia, Myelocytic Leukemia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cancer Of The Blood
Literary usage of Cancer of the blood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Pathological Society of London by Pathological Society of London (1878)
"... "approaches in many ways to the character of a truly malignant and infectious
disease of the blood ; that is, a cancer of the blood" (' Path. ..."
2. Buffalo Medical Journal (1887)
"MIA, CONSIDERED AS SPECIFIC cancer of the blood. BY 1 - BARD, Hospital Physician
and Chief of the Anal. Path. Laboratory of the Faculty of Medicine, Lyons, ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"In the light of modern research concerning the pathology of this disease, leukaemia
may be regarded as a sort of cancer of the blood, the bone-marrow being ..."
4. Nostrums and Quackery: Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery Reprinted by American Medical Association (1912)
"... takes one month's treatment to make a cure;" that "our treatment is the only
one that positively eradicates cancer of the blood, destroys cancer germs, ..."
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