leukæmoid, a. Med.
(l(j)uːˈkiːmɔɪd)
Also leuc-, -emoid.
[f. leukæmia + -oid.]
Resembling (that found in) leukæmia but due to some other cause.
| 1926 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. CLXXII. 529 Was it leukemia, simulating Banti's in an aleukemic early stage, or was it Banti's with a terminal leukemoid picture? 1940 Acta Med. Scand. CIII. 568 In another case of sepsis with marked hyperglobulinemia there was a leucemoid reaction with crowds of plasma cells. 1946 Physiol. Rev. XXVI. 62 The aerobic glycolysis values of preleukemic, leukemic and leukemoid lymph nodes, spleens and livers were 50 per cent to 100 per cent above normal. 1960 F. G. J. Hayhoe Leukaemia xvi. 318 The haematological findings in the myeloproliferative and lymphoproliferative syndromes provide a wide borderline between leukaemic and leukaemoid pictures,..but we shall now be concerned with the unquestionably leukaemoid reactions occasionally observed in association with certain infections, metastasizing tumours, and some non-leukaemic blood diseases. |