- plural of white blood cell.
white blood cells
Example Sentences
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Lymphocytes are white blood cells that help direct the adaptive immune response.
From Science Daily ● May 31, 2026
At the age of 3, he was diagnosed with leukemia: a cancer that causes the body to produce too many abnormal white blood cells.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Specifically, Kelonia is developing intravenous “in vivo” cell therapies—next-generation genetic medicines that reprogram white blood cells directly inside the body.
From Barron's ● Apr. 20, 2026
The common thread is that malignant cells overtake the marrow—the tissue that produces white blood cells to fight infection, red blood cells to carry oxygen, and platelets to prevent bleeding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
He had precipitated it in dense, swirling strands out of white blood cells that he had wrung out of human pus in surgical dressings.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
