Initialism vs Leukemia - What's the difference?
initialism | leukemia |
A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
(US) A type of malignancy affecting the blood cells or blood-forming tissues.
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, title= (US, countable) Any specific form or type of cancer of the blood-forming tissues.
As nouns the difference between initialism and leukemia
is that initialism is a term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter while leukemia is leukemia (cancer of blood forming tissue).initialism
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Noun
(wikipedia initialism) (en noun)- BBC is an initialism for British Broadcasting Corporation.
See also
* abbreviation * acronym * orphan initialism * TLA *leukemia
English
(wikipedia leukemia)Alternative forms
* leukaemia (UK) * (l) * (archaic)Noun
Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits, passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}