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Definition: Leukocytosis |
LeukocytosisNoun1. An abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood as a result of infection (as in leukemia). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | A transient increase in the number of leukocytes in a body fluid. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: LeukocytosisSynonym: leucocytosis (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Leukocytosis |
| Specialty definitions using "leukocytosis": leukocytosis or leucocytosis ♦ monocuclear leukocytosis ♦ Polycythemia Vera ♦ Wissler's Syndrome. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Typical clinical laboratory findings include hemoconcentration, left shift in the white blood cell count, neutrophilic leukocytosis, thrombocytopenia, and circulating immunoblasts. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Leukocytosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Leukocytosis" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "leukocytosis": leukocytosis or leucocytosis ♦ monocuclear leukocytosis. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
leukocytosis | 80 |
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| Language | Translations for "leukocytosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | leukocytose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | leukocytose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | leucocytose (f). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Leukozytose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | μετακτινική λευκοκυττάρωση (radiation leukocytosis), αδρεναλινική λευκοκυττάρωση (adrenalin leukocytosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | leucocitosi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 백혈구증가증. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eukocytosislay leucocitose. (various references) leucocitosis post-radiación (radiation leukocytosis), leucocitosis de adrenalina (adrenalin leukocytosis), mononucleosis (monocuclear leukocytosis, mononucleosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-k-l-o-o-s-s-t-u-y" | |
-3 letters: closeouts, outslicks. | |
-4 letters: closeout, coituses, cookless, coulises, coulisse, cytosols, leukosis, leukotic, lockouts, lousiest, luckiest, oculists, ostioles, otiosely, outslick, outsoles, sickouts, slickest, solecist, solstice, stickles, stockily, stoolies, sulkiest, systolic, tussocky, yolkiest, yuckiest. | |
-5 letters: citoles, closest, closets, colossi, cookeys, cookies, coolest, coolies, cooties, cosiest, coyotes, cutises, cytosol, ictuses, ketosis, kylices, lockets, lockout, locusts, loosest, lotoses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 75 6B 6F 63 79 74 6F 73 69 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . ..- -.- --- -.-. -.--. - --- ... .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01110101 01101011 01101111 01100011 01111001 01110100 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e u k o c y t o s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0075 006B 006F 0063 0079 0074 006F 0073 0069 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)467187778169918681857585 |
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