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white blood cells
noun as in cells that eat bacteria and fungi
Example Sentences
After drinking a lot of alcohol - which many students will be doing to overcome nerves - your body produces fewer white blood cells, which help to fight off infections.
Specifically, chronic exposure to ethylene oxide over many years increases the risk of cancers of the white blood cells, such as non-Hodgkin lymphoma, as well as breast cancer, according to the EPA.
In APDS, an enzyme produced in the body is "switched on" all the time, disrupting the development of white blood cells and causing the immune system to be disregulated.
These take instructions from the white blood cells known as dendritic cells, which he refers to as the "generals" of the immune system.
Leukaemia is a type of blood cancer that affects blood cells in your bone marrow – usually white blood cells, Blood Cancer UK said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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