cancer of the blood

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cancer of the blood - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cancer of the blood
      n 1: malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized
           by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four
           major types of cancer [syn: leukemia, leukaemia,
           leucaemia, cancer of the blood]