Path. Less correctly leuc-, leukæmia. [mod.L. as if Gr. *λευχαιμία, f. λευκ-ός white + αἶμα blood.] Virchow’s name for a disease characterized by an excessive production of white corpuscles in the blood, with morbid affections of the spleen and other parts; called also LEUCOCYTHÆMIA.
1855. in Mayne, Expos. Lex.
1873. T. H. Green, Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2), 148. Leukæmia.
1876. Duhring, Dis. Skin, 503. Leucocythemic lymphadenoma, or leucæmia.
1885–8. Fagge & Pye-Smith, Princ. Med. (ed. 2), I. 114. Leuchæmia.
1898. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 635. Bennett gave the name leucocythæmia to the disease, whilst Virchow called it leukæmia.
Hence Leuchæmic a., affected with or characterized by leuchæmia.
1876. Clinical Soc. Trans., IX. 83. On finding the leuchæmic state of the blood I gave him phosphorus.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 445. Leukæmic tumours are small, scattered, roundish patches of lymph-cells.
