The average number of bacilli ingested per leucocyte = the "phagocytic index.
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.
Hence the danger to the individual leucocyte is minimized and the maximum effect obtained.
Max, I just saw a leucocyte grab a red blood corpuscle.
A toti-potent leucocyte finding its way into cellular wombs.
They turned end for end, floating by the humped misty mass of a leucocytewhich was crawling on the cover glass.
Whatever it may be, it is swallowed and quickly inclosed within the mass of the leucocyte and submitted to the dissolving action of its juices--or, in a way, eaten.
The generality of the phenomenon results from the leucocyte preserving its phagocytic faculty in all its peregrinations, and these peregrinations are unlimited.
As soon as a leucocyte touches a resisting body it reacts to the contact by applying the largest possible surface to it.
The leucocyte count will show a marked increase in the number of polynuclears.
In 1910, Bataillon showed that a mere puncture of the egg with a needle could induce development but he believes that for the full development the introduction of a fragment of a leucocyte is required.
The leucocyte count may be supplemented by staining films of the blood with a watery solution of iodine and potassium iodide.
Surely now the regular leucocyte cavalry have them at their mercy, and can cut them down at leisure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leucocyte" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
