Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Whiteness of skin; pallor.
- noun The formation or progress of leucoma.
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Among those diseases are the following: bovine leucosis, bovine anaplasmosis, sugarcane mosaic, and others.
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The yellow fever vaccine is an attenuated, live-virus preparation of the 17D strain of yellow fever virus grown in leucosis-free chick embryos.
American Chronicle 2009
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Schubach W, Groudine M (1984) Alteration of c-myc chromatin structure by avian leucosis virus integration.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Maria Costantini et al. 2009
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Activity Newcastle disease virus (NDV) chicken embryo allantoic fluid injected calves affected 'sporadic skin leucosis' (SSL)
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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Charleston, Southern Baptist Publication Society, 1857,] met with a great many cases of leucosis in Soudan or Negroland, back of Liberia, and erroneously concluded that these people had very little, if any negro blood in them, and would be better subjects for missionary labors than the blacks of the same country.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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