How to Use white blood cell in a Sentence
white blood cell
noun-
The normal range for a white blood cell count is from about 3.5 to about 11.
— Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2022 -
The question is, why is your white blood cell count low?
— Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 31 July 2023 -
Eosinophils are a type of white blood cell that fight disease.
— Eryn Mathewson, CNN, 8 Jan. 2022 -
Macrophages are a type of white blood cell that aids the immune system.
— George Petras, USA TODAY, 8 June 2023 -
By the mid-20s and 30s, acne is made of deep pockets of white blood cells and these can't be popped.
— Rebecca Dancer, Allure, 3 Mar. 2020 -
By the mid-20s and 30s, acne is made of deep pockets of white blood cells, and these can't be popped.
— Renee Jacques, Allure, 11 Dec. 2017 -
That means less room for healthy white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets to form in the bone marrow.
— Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 11 Nov. 2019 -
Blood is made up of red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma.
— Elizabeth Weise and Mark Johnson, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2020 -
The techs will then put the white blood cells into a machine that will count each cell.
— oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2019 -
Neutrophils are the most common type of white blood cell.
— Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2022 -
As a result, the body views a tattoo as a wound and sends out macrophages, or white blood cells, to heal the area.
— Devika Rao, The Week, 10 May 2023 -
Macrophages are white blood cells that aid the immune system.
— Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024 -
Leukemia is a type of cancer that affects white blood cells.
— Fox News, 22 Nov. 2019 -
Then there are the reapers, creatures with tentacles that took a cue from the macrophage (a type of white blood cell).
— Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2022 -
The choreography of red and white blood cells dancing around the slide left me in awe.
— Cory Zapatka, The Verge, 15 May 2018 -
All of the 26 had a fever, with around half showing fatigue, decreased white blood cell count and cough.
— Amy Cheng, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2022 -
The blood is filtered in a machine that extracts the plasma; red and white blood cells are returned to the donor.
— Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2020 -
The first chip in the system skims off the tiny red blood cells and platelets so that only the CTCs and white blood cells flow into the second.
— Rachel Feltman, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2013 -
B cells area type of white blood cell that help fight off infections.
— Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2021 -
Jung has seen the same happen in ferrets with a virus that causes loss of white blood cells called platelets.
— Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 13 Apr. 2020 -
This type of cancer starts in white blood cells and is most common in late middle age.
— Sarah Klein, Health.com, 19 Apr. 2018 -
Mast cells are a type of white blood cell found throughout the body, which play a key role in our immune defences.
— Sarah Graham, refinery29.com, 11 Jan. 2024 -
At some point, those cells spill out into the bloodstream, increasing the number of white blood cells in the blood, the ACS says.
— Korin Miller, Health.com, 13 Dec. 2019 -
Maybe your physician has checked your white blood cell levels.
— Popular Science, 6 Oct. 2020 -
The thymus makes white blood cells that protect the body against infections.
— Luke Broadwater, baltimoresun.com, 11 Nov. 2019 -
The tale of the two white blood cells, one of which is infected with the virus, depicts the power of love over fear and ignorance.
— NBC News, 5 Sep. 2019 -
Urokinase comes along, carried on the surface of platelets and certain white blood cells, to finish the job.
— Karen Weintraub, STAT, 6 Apr. 2018 -
Aside from the physical fact that my white blood cell count went down, my stress level just went down.
— John Ortved, Vogue, 27 July 2021 -
Multiple myeloma is a blood cancer that impacts plasma B cells, a type of white blood cell found in the bone marrow.
— William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024 -
Richard was hospitalized in 2010 and diagnosed with arthralgia, anemia and low white blood cells.
— Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 11 Sep. 2024
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