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n. - Blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi.

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Usage examples (18)
  • Pulse, 90; temperature, 99.2; respiration, 20; leucocyte count, .82 at 10 a.m.
  • It stood out sharply when he focused -- the white, jellyfish shape of a single-celled leucocyte.
  • National Blood Transfusion Centre, he described the first leucocyte antigen, MAC, which has become known as HLA-A2.
  • Starting at one end of the film move the slide slowly across the microscope stage and as each leucocyte comes into view count and record the number of ingested bacteria.
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