How to Use white cell in a Sentence
white cell
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The Greenland shark has no bone marrow, and no white cells.
—David Cox /, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2017
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T cells are the white cells that help the immune system fight off illness.
—Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 12 June 2018
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The red team was ready to begin shooting down the V-22s when Van Riper’s chief of staff received a message from the white cell.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Jan. 2020
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But then, day by day, as the ritual progressed, and fewer white cells were left, the stuff grew clear.
—Eric Boodman, STAT, 6 Dec. 2019
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There are two forms of fat cells, brown cells and white cells, and each plays a different role in our metabolism.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 24 June 2019
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Red cells, white cells or platelets were at critically low levels.
—Alex Harrison, Cincinnati.com, 23 Oct. 2019
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By then, Kelly’s white cell count and lactic acid (both markers for infection) were normal.
—Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
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The epitopes flagged the bacteria, triggering white cells and othe immune fighters to attack.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 July 2018
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New on Friday was that the field was down to 19 as King Fury scratched due to a fever and elevated white cell count, which usually indicates an infection.
—John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2021
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And blood work showed leucocytosis — his white cells were high, which is most commonly the result of infection.
—Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2019
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While brown cells help generate heat, white cells are responsible for the storage of fat -- or, energy -- ready for release as needed.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 24 June 2019
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In this cancer, a type of white cell called a plasma cell creates abnormal fibers that can break down and form the characteristic saw-toothed fibers of amyloidosis.
—New York Times, 28 July 2021
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This is a doctor whose patients are virtually all immunocompromised, since most cancer drugs wipe out our white cell count.
—Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
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Unfortunately, low white cell counts can sometimes indicate a severe bone marrow problem, so your friend does need to get an evaluation if the repeat test still shows a very low count.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2022
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In early August, after a routine blood test found her white cell count plummeting, she was taken by ambulance to Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn for a blood transfusion.
—Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2019
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His doctors upped the immune-suppressing medicines and started something called photopheresis, in which blood is routed out of the body, through a type of light that kills off the misdirected white cells, then back into circulation.
—Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
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Young-blood transfusions typically involve plasma, the fluid part of blood packed with signaling proteins and other molecules but no red or white cells.
—Rebecca Robbins, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2019
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Spinal taps revealed high white cell counts in the cerebrospinal fluid—usually a harbinger of severe infection—but bacterial and viral cultures grew nothing.
—Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2011
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