Both Uses of
leukemia
in
Catch-22
- There was Hodgkin's disease, leukemia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.†
Chpt 17 *
- His meditations were polluted with threats of dread diseases like Ewing's tumor and leukemia; he saw his infant son die two or three times every week because he had never taught his wife how to stop arterial bleeding; watched, in tearful, paralyzed silence, his whole family electrocuted, one after the other, at a baseboard socket because he had never told her that a human body would conduct electricity; all four went up in flames almost every night when the water heater exploded and…†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(leukemia) a type of cancer that forms in the bone marrow, causing abnormal white blood cell development