What is "leukocyte"

Usage examples of "leukocyte".

I had never expected to find myself in the position of a leukocyte charged with eliminating an undesirable social germ from that bloodstream.

Invading the leukocyte reservoirs, enemy cells permeated rigid walls of bone, forced their way inside the fragile spleen, spilled over and swam freely through the wide lymphatic passages.

He also saw abnormal results for several other tests, including the lactate dehydrogenase test, the B-12 level, and the leukocyte alkaline phosphatase test.

What was also becoming clear, by deduction and some hasty new experiments, was that banishment of leukocytes opened up a weakness, a vulnerability.

In the ordinary way, leukocytes at a disease site killed off foreign material-bacteria.

Imagine having to worry about running leukocytes, keeping track, herding them here and there, listening for signals.

Complement is switched on at the right point in its sequence to release chemotactic signals, calling in leukocytes from everywhere.

Pyrogen is released from leukocytes, adding fever to hemorrhage, necrosis, and shock.

Marshaling leukocytes, materials, and who knows what to improve what he is.

The white count was elevated at 37,000 with a preponderance of polymorphonuclear leukocytes, the cells which increase in bacterial infections.

My mind-tongue stroked and stroked it with instinctive curiosity, like leukocytes casing a virus, something hard and foreign patching my mind.

But the peripheral white count, the absolute number of leukocytes in the bloodstream, could be normal in leukemia.

As in the body leukocytes gather to the site of an infection, so these experts had been whisked off their regular beat, flown across the Atlantic, and dropped straight into the middle of the worst-stricken area.

The leukocytes were like luminous protean flames, like a fever, bearing down on him to shrivel him into nonexistence.

Get the leukocytes and the cytoplasms in their right places, and anyone can be a sawbones!