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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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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 W. Myers

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 W. Myers

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

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

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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