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Leucocyte

noun
1.
Blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system.  Synonyms: leukocyte, WBC, white blood cell, white blood corpuscle, white cell, white corpuscle.






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"Leucocyte" Quotes from Famous Books



... of and one inch below the level of the right nipple. The range of the bullet was upward and inward, a distance of four inches, deeply in the chest wall. There was no evidence of the bullet penetrating into the lung. Pulse, 90; temperature, 99.2; respiration, 20; leucocyte count, .82 at 10 a.m. No operation to remove bullet is indicated at the present time. Condition hopeful, but wound so important as to demand absolute rest for a ...
— The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt • Oliver Remey

... of the internal affairs of the body; the whole machinery and how it works; all organs, members, functions; each last and littlest capillary and leucocyte, are parts ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

... the labour is normal and the puerperium uncomplicated, the number of leucocytes regains the normal in about a week. Lactation has no appreciable effect on the number of leucocytes. In new-born infants the leucocyte count is abnormally high, ranging from 15,000 to 20,000. In children under one year of age, the normal average ...
— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

... the level of the right nipple. The range of the bullet was upward and inward, a distance of four inches, deeply in the chest wall. There was no evidence of the bullet penetrating into the lung. Pulse, 90; temperature, 99.2; respiration, 20; leucocyte count, .82 at 10 a.m. No operation to remove bullet is indicated at the present time. Condition hopeful, but wound so important as to demand absolute rest for a number ...
— The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt • Oliver Remey



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