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• a variation of leukocytosis.

leucocytosis

American  

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

noun

Physiology, Pathology.

1. leukocytosis.

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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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Other Word Forms

• leucocytotic
  adjective

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leucocytosis

An increase is very much more frequent, and is known as leucocytosis, though in this term is usually connoted a relative increase in the proportion of the polymorphonuclear neutrophile leucocytes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various

The possibility of the three high temperatures with leucocytosis being due to intercurrent infections must be considered.

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

Though they have been occasionally found, according to Türk's investigations, in the critical period of pneumonia as parts of a general leucocytosis, the danger of confusion with leukæmic blood changes is non-existent.

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

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 W. Myers

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