Definition of Monocytosis

1. Noun. Increase in the number of monocytes in the blood; symptom of monocytic leukemia.

Generic synonyms: Symptom

Definition of Monocytosis

1. Noun. An increase in the number of circulating monocytes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Monocytosis

1. An abnormal increase in the number of monocytes in the circulating blood. Synonym: monocytic leukocytosis. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monocytosis

monocyte chemoattractant protein-1
monocyte chemoattractant proteins
monocyte chemotactic and activating factor
monocyte derived neutrophil chemotactic factor
monocytes
monocytic
monocytic angina
monocytic leukaemia
monocytic leukemia
monocytic leukemoid reaction
monocytic leukocytosis
monocytic leukopenia
monocytoid cell
monocytopenia
monocytopenic
monocytosis (current term)
monodactylous
monodactyly
monodelphia
monodelphian
monodelphous
monodendrimer
monodendrimers
monodendron
monodendrons
monodentate
monoderivative
monoderivatives
monodermoma
monodic

Literary usage of Monocytosis

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

1. Clinical Examination of the Blood and Its Technique: A Manual for Students by Artur Pappenheim (1914)
"In malaria and in certain other protozoa! infections like variola, monocytosis alone appears even more frequently. Lastly, in children, monocytes are ..."

2. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"... and while they may be increased in number (monocytosis) they retain their typical or normal morphology. During the macrophage showers the monocytes and ..."

3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1917)
"... and according to the gross mechanical effects of the neoplasm on the body (starvation, hemorrhage). monocytosis is frequently seen in the proto- ..."

4. Transactions of the American Therapeutic Society by American Therapeutic Society, Albert Ernest Gallant, Peter Brynberg Porter (1917)
"One point that does not receive sufficient importance in the diagnosis of Graves's disease is the accompanying monocytosis. Kocher, I believe, first called ..."

5. Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner by Charles Lyman Greene (1917)
"The essential features of lymphatic leukemia are txo in number: (a) Enlargement of the lymphatic glands, (b) An absolute monocytosis in which either the ..."

6. Generalized Pain by Norbert Ortner, Francis Joseph Rebman (1922)
"... leucopenia with neutrophilia or lymphopenia, in variola leucocytosis and monocytosis). In influenza arthralgias are very common. ..."

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