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leukocytic

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leukocytic.
See leukocyte.

leukocytic
pertaining to or emanating from leukocytes.

leukocytic pyrogen
protein substances, e.g. interleukin-1, which stimulate the thermoregulator center of the hypothalamus via prostaglandins; produced by bone-marrow derived phagocytes.

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Moderate intensity and the spread of inflammatory infiltration of the tissue, an almost complete absence of leukocytic component of cellular reaction, and an early termination of the inflammatory process in the kidneys resulted in full restitution of the tissue.
Bob" Defino, 70, of 21 Farmington Drive, Shrewsbury, died Thursday, January 25th surrounded by his loving family in UMass Memorial Medical Center-Memorial Campus of complications from Chronic Leukocytic Lymphoma, a disease he lived with for 24 years.
Additionally, histopathologic findings in patients with respiratory weakness and WNV infection have demonstrated neuronophagia and leukocytic inflammation of the dorsal motor nuclei of the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves, which is similar to that seen in the spinal anterior horns (26).
 
 
 
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