white blood cells
Colorless cells in the blood that help combat infection. Some white blood cells act as scavengers by engulfing foreign particles (such as bacteria) and destroying them. Others produce antibodies or destroy dead cells. (See AIDS.)
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The very white blood cells tasked with protecting me had turned on my hair follicles.
An Epidemic of Absence: Destroying the Bugs in Our Bodies Can Be Dangerous to Our Health | Moises Velasquez-Manoff | September 9, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMDS is a relatively rare condition that can lead to a depletion of red or white blood cells, anemia, heavy bleeding.
How Robin Roberts’ Breast Cancer Treatment Could Cause More Cancer | Casey Schwartz | June 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWe catch our greatest enemy, the white blood-cells, when they are without their fighting clothes on, and then we get busy.
Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks | May Farinholt-JonesThis latter is probably produced by the white blood-cells when in disintegration.
If we are not in good health the bacteria may overcome the white blood cells.
The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) | W. Grant Hague
The white blood cells grow into the sides of cuts, and so heal them.
Applied Physiology | Frank OvertonSome of the white blood cells and the liquid from the blood run out, and we have to blow the nose.
Applied Physiology | Frank Overton
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