leucemia, leucsemia

(lu-se'ml-ah) [G. leukos, white, + cythemia; a disease of the blood marked by persistent leucocytosis a ociated with changes in the spleen and bone-marrow or in the lymphatic glands, aleuce'mic pseudo leucemia. amyg'- daline 1., a form a umed to be due to infection through the tonsils, aplas'tic 1., a form of 1. in which there is a diminution of both red and white blood cells, only the relative increase of large atypical leucocytes substantiating the diagnosis. hepat'ic 1., a form supposed to be due to disease of the hver. intes'tinal 1., a form thought to be due to autointoxication of intestinal origin. 1. cu'tis, the occurrence of lesions of various I forms upon the skin in cases of leucemia li"eno- , myelog'enous splenomyelogenous lymph at'ic I., a variety in which the lymphatic glands are chiefly affected; in the acute form the large lymphocytes are numerous, the neutrophiles and eosinophiles being comparatively few; in the chronic form the small uninuclear leucocytes are very numerous, the polymorphonuclear neutrophiles are reduced in number, eosinophiles and myelocytes are seldom found, med'ullary myelogenous mixed myelogenous myelocyt'ic 1., mixed-cell 1., a form of 1. in which white cells of both myeloid and lymph adenoid origin are present in great numbers, myelog'enous 1., 1.