How to Use white blood cell in a Sentence

white blood cell

noun
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  • 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
  • Hodgkin lymphoma is a type of cancer that originates in white blood cells called lymphocytes, affecting the lymphatic system, which is part of the body’s immune system.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
  • For example, in humans, white blood cells die between 60 and 86 hours after organismal death.
    — Peter A Noble, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2024

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