white blood cell
noun
: any of the blood cells that are colorless, lack hemoglobin, contain a nucleus, and include the lymphocytes, monocytes, neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils
called also leukocyte, white blood corpuscle, white cell
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Gleevec was able to switch the abnormal enzyme off, shutting down the cell overgrowth and letting patients' white blood cell counts return to normal.
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Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 10 May 2026
However, it was later refined and proven to remedy gout by reducing white blood cell division and proliferation that brings on this condition.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
What multiple doctors had written off as dry skin was, in fact, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that starts in white blood cells called T cells and primarily affects the skin, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
Puppies with parvo may collapse, have a high heart rate, have difficulty breathing, have low white blood cell counts, be hypothermic or be hypoglycemic.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2026
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Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 10 May 2026
However, it was later refined and proven to remedy gout by reducing white blood cell division and proliferation that brings on this condition.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 7 May 2026
What multiple doctors had written off as dry skin was, in fact, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that starts in white blood cells called T cells and primarily affects the skin, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026
Puppies with parvo may collapse, have a high heart rate, have difficulty breathing, have low white blood cell counts, be hypothermic or be hypoglycemic.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for white blood cell
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“White blood cell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20blood%20cell. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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