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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But besides low white blood cell counts and some serious hunger pangs, they were all said to be in good health.
    — J. Weston Phippen, Outside Online, 10 July 2018
  • 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
  • In the study, the researchers compared the blood samples of people with lupus to a control group to measure the amount of certain white blood cells, T cells.
    — Richard Sima, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • Infections begin after an incubation period of five to seven days and present as fever accompanied by symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, rash, muscle aches, joint pain, bone pain, pain behind the eyes, headache or low white blood cell counts.
    — Lena H. Sun, Washington Post, 25 June 2024

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