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• plural of white blood cell.

white blood cells

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1. Colorless cells in the blood that help combat infection. Some white blood cells act as scavengers by engulfing foreign particles (such as bacteria) and destroying them. Others produce antibodies or destroy dead cells. (See AIDS.)

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At the age of 3, he was diagnosed with leukemia: a cancer that causes the body to produce too many abnormal white blood cells.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

In this case, the virus has been modified to replicate only inside tumor cells, causing them to burst, while simultaneously triggering a more aggressive immune response from the body’s own white blood cells.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

Mantle cell lymphoma is rare and affects white blood cells called B lymphocytes.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

When you get injured, your immune system sends certain white blood cells to calm pain-sensing neurons and inflammation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

He had precipitated it in dense, swirling strands out of white blood cells that he had wrung out of human pus in surgical dressings.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee