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- English Word Leucocythemia Definition A disease in which the white corpuscles of the blood are largely increased in number, and there is enlargement of the spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchaemia.
- English Word Leucocytogenesis Definition The formation of leucocytes.
- English Word Leucoethiopic Definition White and black; -- said of a white animal of a black species, or the albino of the negro race.
- English Word Leucoethiops Definition An albino.
- English Word Leucoline Definition A nitrogenous organic base from coal tar, and identical with quinoline. Cf. Quinoline.
- English Word Leucoma Definition A white opacity in the cornea of the eye; -- called also albugo.
- English Word Leucomaine Definition An animal base or alkaloid, appearing in the tissue during life; hence, a vital alkaloid, as distinguished from a ptomaine or cadaveric poison.
- English Word Leuconic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a complex organic acid, obtained as a yellowish white gum by the oxidation of croconic acid.
- English Word Leucopathy Definition The state of an albino, or of a white child of black parents.
- English Word Leucophane Definition A mineral of a greenish yellow color; it is a silicate of glucina, lime, and soda with fluorine. Called also leucophanite.
- English Word Leucophlegmacy Definition A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats.
- English Word Leucophlegmatic Definition Having a dropsical habit of body, with a white bloated skin.
- English Word Leucophyll Definition A colorless substance isomeric with chlorophyll, contained in parts of plants capable of becoming green.
- English Word Leucophyllous Definition Having white or silvery foliage.
- English Word Leucoplast Definition Alt. of Leucoplastid
- English Word Leucoplastid Definition One of certain very minute whitish or colorless granules occurring in the protoplasm of plants and supposed to be the nuclei around which starch granules will form.
- English Word Leucopyrite Definition A mineral of a color between white and steel-gray, with a metallic luster, and consisting chiefly of arsenic and iron.
- English Word Leucorrhoea Definition A discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites.
- English Word Leucoryx Definition A large antelope of North Africa (Oryx leucoryx), allied to the gemsbok.
- English Word Leucoscope Definition An instrument, devised by Professor Helmholtz, for testing the color perception of the eye, or for comparing different lights, as to their constituent colors or their relative whiteness.
- English Word Leucosoid Definition Like or pertaining to the Leucosoidea, a tribe of marine crabs including the box crab or Calappa.
- English Word Leucosphere Definition The inner corona.
- English Word Leucoturic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic substance of the uric acid group, called leucoturic acid or oxalantin. See Oxalantin.
- English Word Leucous Definition White; -- applied to albinos, from the whiteness of their skin and hair.
- English Word Leucoxene Definition A nearly opaque white mineral, in part identical with titanite, observed in some igneous rocks as the result of the alteration of titanic iron.
- English Word Leukaemia Definition Leucocythaemia.
- English Word Leuke Definition Alt. of Leukeness
- English Word Leukeness Definition See Luke, etc.
- English Word Leukoplast Definition See Leucoplast.
- English Word Levana Definition A goddess who protected newborn infants.