- 1白血病（口語也說「血癌」）
Leukemia is a cancer of the blood. The body makes far too many white blood cells, and they do not work as they should. Those extra cells crowd out the healthy ones, so a person may feel very tired and weak, or bleed easily, catch infections, and — without treatment — the illness can kill. There is not one single leukemia: doctors split it by how fast it grows (acute or chronic) and by which kind of white cell is involved. Treatment is much better than it once was, especially for some kinds in children, but it is still a serious disease. American English leukemia; British English usually leukaemia. In plain talk people also say blood cancer.
From the word’s history
From German Leukämie, from Ancient Greek λευκός 'white' + αἷμα 'blood'.
借自德文 Leukämie，由希臘文「白」加「血」組成。
組成From German Leukämie, from Ancient Greek leukós (“white”) + haîma (“blood”). By the pieces you can still see: leuk- (white) + -emia (a blood condition). The “white” is there because the disease involves white blood cells.
同家族的字
- leukocyteleuk- “white”: a white blood cell
- anemia-emia: a condition of the blood (this one is about too little healthy blood, not cancer)
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
leukemianoun/luːˈkiːmi.ə/
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medicineoncologypathologyAny of a class of types of cancer affecting the blood cells, especially the white blood cells (usually with massive leukocytosis), and the blood cell–forming (hematopoietic) tissues.
- The subjects suffered from lymphoblastic and myeloid leukemias.
- In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
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