leukemoid reaction

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A moderate, advanced, or sometimes extreme degree of leukocytosis that is similar or possibly identical to that occurring in leukemia but is due to some other cause.

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Words nearby leukemoid reaction

leukemid, leukemogen, leukemogenesis, leukemogenic, leukemoid, leukemoid reaction, Leukeran, leuko-, leukoagglutinin, leukoblast, leukoblastosis

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We haven't had any real fan reaction yet, but our collective fingers are crossed.
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Or how kicking a reaction-less eunuch in the crotch over and over again is comedy.
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Your general reaction runs along the lines of: “When will these geezers give it up and go for a mall walk or something?”
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Jundullah and Jaish ul Adl sprang up “in reaction to that kind of oppression,” he said.
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No one likes it when their sandcastle is knocked over, but his reaction is a bit, err, extreme.
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While this reaction lasted he laughed away the evidence, and honestly believed he was exaggerating trifles.
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Ordinarily the diazo appears a little earlier than the Widal reaction—about the fourth or fifth day—but it may be delayed.
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For Lettice—the tender woman of his first acquaintance—had obviously experienced a moment of reaction.
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When applied to the diagnosis of typhoid fever, the phenomenon is known as the Widal reaction.
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As yet, it is the only agglutination reaction which has any practical value for the practitioner.
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