leucocyte
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It is well known that the leucocyte count is high in infancy and old age, decreasing in between.
From Time Magazine Archive
The anaemia accompanying the disease is due partly to the leucocyte overgrowth, which takes up the space in the marrow belonging of right to red corpuscle formation and interferes with it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
The Iodine or Glycogen Reaction.—The leucocyte count may be supplemented by staining films of the blood with a watery solution of iodine and potassium iodide.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
The Lymphocyte.—This is the smallest leucocyte, being only about 0.0065 mm. in diameter.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
The direction of motion is due to stimulation of that part of the body of the leucocyte which is towards the source of the stimulus.
From Disease and Its Causes by William Thomas Councilman
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