Definition of Leukopoiesis

1. [n -POIESES]

Medical Definition of Leukopoiesis

1. The production of leukocytes. They are formed partially in the bone marrow (granulocytes, monocytes and a few lymphocytes) and partially in lymphatic tissue (lymphocytes and plasma cells). (guyton & hall, textbook of medical physiology, 9th ed) (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leukopoiesis

leukopenia
leukopenias
leukopenic
leukopenic factor
leukopenic index
leukopenic leukaemia
leukophlegmasia
leukophlegmasia dolens
leukophobia
leukoplakias
leukoplakic
leukopoieses
leukopoiesis (current term)
leukopoietic
leukoprotease
leukoreduced
leukoreduction
leukoriboflavin
leukorrhagia
leukorrheal
leukorrheas
leukorrhoeal
leukosarcoma
leukosarcomatosis
leukoses

Literary usage of Leukopoiesis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Clinical Diagnosis of Internal Diseases by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1916)
"As might be expected, the signs of increased leukopoiesis are more marked in the ... As signs of such accelerated leukopoiesis, there is often an outspoken ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"As might be expected, the signs of increased leukopoiesis are more marked in :•.}<• posthemorrhagic and in the acute hemolytic anemias than in the anemias ..."

3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1920)
"He believes that injections of milk are a stimulant to the general defense of the organism by activation of leukopoiesis and phagocytosis as well as by ..."

4. Clinical medicine ; Tuesday clinics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1922)
"One may say, therefore, that it is characteristic of the early stage of Hodgkin's disease to see a depression of lymphadenoid leukopoiesis and, at least, ..."

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