- a variation of leukocytosis.
leucocytosis
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This standpoint had to be abandoned, when Ehrlich shewed that it is chiefly the emigration of the polynuclear neutrophil cells, which brings about leucocytosis.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.
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 Myers, W.
Here during life the blood shewed, in the main, the features of a simple severe anæmia; but in addition isolated normoblasts, small marrow cells, and moderate leucocytosis.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.
Thus in rabbit's blood in which he had experimentally produced leucocytosis, Hankin found a distinct progressive decrease of the pseudoeosinophil granules on allowing the samples of blood to remain some time in the thermostat.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.
Thus the intrusion of a leucocytosis, brought about by secondary infection, is able to obliterate more or less the specific character of the blood.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.
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