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Definition of Leucocytosis
1. Noun. An abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood as a result of infection (as in leukemia).
Definition of Leucocytosis
1. Noun. (pathology) A raised white blood cell count, above the normal range. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Leucocytosis
1. A transient increase in the number of leucocytes in the circulating blood, resulting from various causes, as haemorrhage, fever, infection, inflammation, etc. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leucocytosis
Literary usage of Leucocytosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1898)
"D., AND FRANKLIN W. WHITE, SB, MD, OF BOSTON. The first investigators to find a
leucocytosis in pregnancy were Moleschott and ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"THE following observations were undertaken, in the first instance, for the purpose
of establishing a normal standard of leucocytosis in non-septic ..."
3. Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease: A Text-book for by Augustus Caillé (1906)
"(b) Pathological leucocytosis (which seems to be an effort of Nature to overcome
infection) ... leucocytosis of acute infection*. In inflammatory conditions ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"Acute continuous mania—The leucocytosis resembles that of excited melancholia,
... In cases which do not recover and become chronic the leucocytosis falls, ..."
5. Pediatrics: The Hygienic and Medical Treatment of Children by Thomas Morgan Rotch (1895)
"He says that " leucocytosis is the presence in the blood of an increased number of
... Physiologically, we find a leucocytosis after the ingestion of anv ..."
6. The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood: For the Use of Students and by Luther Emmett Holt, John Howland (1911)
"The degree of leucocytosis is also influenced by the nature of the inflammatory
... The Diagnostic Value of leucocytosis.—The following are the principal ..."
7. Medical Diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine; a Guide to by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1900)
"leucocytosis.—leucocytosis is an increased number of white cells over the ...
We also find leucocytosis in malignant disease; in gout and in lith- aemia; ..."
8. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1909)
"Occurrence of leucocytosis. leucocytosis, like fever, occurs in a great variety of
... There is in all probability no constant leucocytosis in pregnancy or ..."
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