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Leukemia is a disease related to

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Split the word into leukos and haima, the Greek for white and blood.
Updated On: Jul 17, 2026
  • Kidney
  • Throat
  • Blood
  • Eyes
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The Correct Option is C

Solution and Explanation

The name of the disease gives the answer away once you split it up. Leukos means white and haima means blood in Greek, so leukemia means white blood. Now match that against the options.

  1. Kidney: Kidney illnesses go by names like nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and renal failure, and the kidney cancer is renal cell carcinoma. None of these is leukemia.
  2. Throat: Throat conditions include pharyngitis, laryngitis and tonsillitis. They inflame the airway lining and have nothing to do with blood cell counts.
  3. Blood: Leukemia is a cancer that starts in the bone marrow, the soft tissue inside bones where blood cells are made. The marrow floods the bloodstream with immature white cells that cannot fight infection, and these crowd out red cells and platelets. The patient becomes anaemic, bruises and bleeds easily and catches infections again and again. Doctors first find it through a blood count and confirm it with a marrow test.
  4. Eyes: Cataract, glaucoma, trachoma and conjunctivitis are eye diseases. Leukemia is not one of them, though very advanced cases can show changes in the retina.

Option (C) is correct because leukemia is a blood and bone marrow cancer.

Let's summarize:

  • Leukemia means white blood and is a cancer of blood forming tissue in the marrow.
  • Its signs, anaemia, bleeding and repeated infection, all trace back to faulty blood cells.

So leukemia is related to the blood.

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