LEUKOCYTOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leukocytosis mean? 

• LEUKOCYTOSIS (noun)
  The noun LEUKOCYTOSIS has 1 sense:

1. an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood as a result of infection (as in leukemia)

  Familiarity information: LEUKOCYTOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEUKOCYTOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the blood as a result of infection (as in leukemia)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

leucocytosis; leukocytosis

Hypernyms ("leukocytosis" is a kind of...):

blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)

 Context examples 

A phase of chronic myelogenous leukemia in which the peripheral blood smear shows leukocytosis due mainly to neutrophils in different stages of maturation.

(Chronic Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, BCR-ABL1 Positive, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Signs and symptoms include abdominal pain, fever, and leukocytosis.

(Diverticulitis, NCI Thesaurus)

A myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm characterized by the principal involvement of the neutrophil series with leukocytosis and multilineage dysplasia.

(Atypical Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, BCR-ABL1 Negative, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

A rare chronic myeloproliferative neoplasm characterised by neutrophilic leukocytosis.

(Chronic neutrophilic leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)

In cancer patients it increases leukocytosis, blood active T rosettes, T4/T8 ratio, and is used as an adjuvant to chemotherapy in the treatment of melanoma and myeloma.

(Azimexon, NCI Thesaurus)

By inhibiting PG formation, bromfenac is able to inhibit PG-induced inflammation, thereby preventing vasodilation, leukocytosis, disruption of the blood-aqueous humor barrier, an increase in vascular permeability and an increase in intraocular pressure (IOP).

(Bromfenac, NCI Thesaurus)

It presents with neutrophilic leukocytosis.

(Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, BCR-ABL1 Positive, NCI Thesaurus)

Comment: Intended to encompass diseases more closely related to human myelodysplastic syndromes than to human myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative or myeloproliferative diseases; Disorder is not a non-lymphoid leukemia; In the peripheral blood mice exhibit: A. Neutropenia (+/- anemia, +/- thrombocytopenia) or B. Thrombocytopenia without either leukocytosis or erythrocytosis or C. Anemia without either leukocytosis or thrombocytosis; Mice exhibit a defect in maturation of non-lymphoid hematopoietic cells as evidenced by any combination of: A. Dysgranulopoiesis, dyserythropoiesis, and/or dysplastic megakaryocytes or B. greater or equal to 20% non-lymphoid immature forms/blasts in bone marrow and/or spleen

(Myeloid Dysplasia of Mouse, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Mice exhibit increased non-lymphoid hematopoietic cells as evidenced by any combination of; A: Erythrocytosis, leukocytosis of myeloid cells, and/or thrombocytosis/circulating megakaryocytes B: Increased non-lymphoid hematopoietic cells in spleen and/or bone marrow.

(Mouse Myeloid Proliferation, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)