Leukocytosis

Definition: Leukocytosis

Leukocytosis

Noun

1. An abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood as a result of infection (as in leukemia).

Specialty Definitions: Leukocytosis

Domain	Definitions
Health	A transient increase in the number of leukocytes in a body fluid. (references)
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Synonym: Leukocytosis

Synonym: leucocytosis (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Leukocytosis

Specialty definitions using "leukocytosis": leukocytosis or leucocytosis ♦ monocuclear leukocytosis ♦ Polycythemia Vera ♦ Wissler's Syndrome. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Leukocytosis

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)
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Usage Frequency: Leukocytosis

"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

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Expressions: Leukocytosis

Expressions using "leukocytosis": leukocytosis or leucocytosis ♦ monocuclear leukocytosis. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Leukocytosis

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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Modern Translations: Leukocytosis

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

Portuguese		leucocitose. (various references)

Spanish		leucocitosis post-radiación (radiation leukocytosis), leucocitosis de adrenalina (adrenalin leukocytosis), mononucleosis (monocuclear leukocytosis, mononucleosis). (various references)
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Anagrams: Leukocytosis

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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