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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lymphocytes are white blood cells made in your bone marrow and lymph nodes.
    Barbara Brody, Health, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The swelling results from extra white blood cells coming to the site to fight infection.
    Maggie O'Neill, Health, 30 June 2023
  • The body creates too many abnormal white blood cells, which disrupts the body's healthy blood cells.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The last ditch effort was to put her on dialysis to try to clean the acid and the white blood cells to help provide healthy blood to all of her organs.
    Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
  • As his white blood cell count climbed in early 1998, Mann was getting worried.
    USA Today, 10 May 2021
  • One patient said she’s spent the last week playing phone tag to get the results of blood work done in response to her high white blood cell count.
    Marion Renault, STAT, 23 May 2021
  • The virus can then infect the white blood cell that consumes it, facilitating the spread of the disease.
    National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The virus enters cells at the back of the throat and from there moves into B cells, a type of white blood cell that produces antibodies.
    New York Times, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Most people with a low overall white blood cell count have low numbers of neutrophils.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 12 May 2022

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