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leucocytosis

American  
[loo-koh-sahy-toh-sis] / ˌlu koʊ saɪˈtoʊ sɪs /

noun

Physiology, Pathology.
  1. leukocytosis.


leucocytosis British  
/ ˌluːkəʊsaɪˈtəʊsɪs /

noun

  1. a gross increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood, usually as a response to an infection

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The problem of leucocytosis is one of the most keenly debated questions of modern medicine.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers

After this came the phase of increase of the white blood corpuscles; and here too exclusively of the polynuclear cells; the polynuclear leucocytosis.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers

Polynuclear neutrophil leucocytosis, is the most frequent of all forms of active leucocytoses.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers

Three cases out of thirty-five, in which high fever and leucocytosis appeared episodically, are hardly enough to justify the view that stupors are the result of a specific infection.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy

A further, but much less weighty objection to the view that myelogenic leukæmia is an active leucocytosis is, that pus artificially produced in leukæmic patients has nearly always the histological constitution of normal pus.

From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers

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