Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A determination of the number of red and white cells in a given quantity of blood, and also of the relative numbers of the different varieties of white cells: this latter is called the differential blood-count.
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Examples
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After the star had been flown into Bombay's Breach Candy Hospital in an Air Force jet made available for the purpose; after exhaustive tests had come up with almost nothing; and while he lay unconscious, dying, with a blood-count that had fallen from his normal fifteen to a murderous four point two, a hospital spokesman faced the national press on Breach Candy's wide white steps.
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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Just now the method is new, and its use somewhat limited, but it is the confident prediction of many students of the subject that, before long, intelligence tests will become as much a matter of necessary routine in schoolroom procedure as a blood-count now is in physical diagnosis.
The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale Lewis Madison Terman 1916
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_Vide_ Cases. blood-count in, 102. diagnosis of, 104. effects of massage in, 101. fatigue in, 72.
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria John K. [Editor] Mitchell 1871
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"Neither an anæmic appearance nor a blood-count is alone enough for a certain diagnosis.
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria John K. [Editor] Mitchell 1871
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