Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A condition marked by an abnormal increase in the number of lymphocytes in the bloodstream, usually resulting from infection or inflammation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The formation of lymph-cells; specifically, increase, actual or relative, in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology An increase in the number or proportion of
lymphocytes in theblood
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an abnormal increase in the number of lymphocytes in the circulating blood
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Examples
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The median reduction in absolute lymphocyte count was 73% in those patients with lymphocytosis at baseline.
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New England Journal of Medicine, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) appears to be preceded by a condition known as monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL).
unknown title 2009
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Yesterday was a long awaited appointment with a second neurologist who weighed in on my crazy collection of symptoms with yet a new diagnosis: syndrome of headache, neurological deficits, and cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytosis (or HaNDL, which almost sounds like it was invented as a catch-all for me and my symptoms).
Inside Higher Ed 2009
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New England Journal of Medicine, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) appears to be preceded by a condition known as monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL).
unknown title 2009
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Yesterday was a long awaited appointment with a second neurologist who weighed in on my crazy collection of symptoms with yet a new diagnosis: syndrome of headache, neurological deficits, and cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytosis (or HaNDL, which almost sounds like it was invented as a catch-all for me and my symptoms).
Inside Higher Ed 2009
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This abnormal condition, known as monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis
WANE TV 2009
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New England Journal of Medicine, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) appears to be preceded by a condition known as monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL).
unknown title 2009
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New England Journal of Medicine, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) appears to be preceded by a condition known as monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL).
unknown title 2009
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New England Journal of Medicine, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) appears to be preceded by a condition known as monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL).
unknown title 2009
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**2 additional evaluable patients had a nodal response with lymphocytosis and are excluded in the response categories listed in this ASH table above but were included in the totals from ASCO 2010 far right column
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