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The short, technically correct but not very helpful answer is that you have "leukocytosis", but that is just the medical name for the condition of having a high WBC! In terms of significance, there are a great many things that can cause an elevated WBC, which is why this lab finding is never used all by itself to diagnose something, it's always combined with other clinical and lab findings. In a patient with high WBC and fever, you suspect infection. Among the most concerning possible causes of high WBC are leukemia and lymphoma. Other causes include steroid use, Cushing's syndrome, type II Diabetes, trauma, seizures, burns, and others.

Having a high WBC (unless it is really incredibly high) is not dangerous in and of itself; it's concerning if there is suspicious of a dangerous condition that may be causing the high WBC.

With an increased white count, if there are bands, this means all the mature cells have been used to fight infection and there is an increase of immature cells trying to fight the infection. An increase is not always a sign of infection. An elevation can occur with almost any assault to the body, such as trauma.

An increase in white blood cells in a "complete blood count or CBC" usually means there is an infection in the body. The severity of the infection depends on how high above normal the white count is and the severity of the accompanying symptoms.

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leucopoeisis
formations of "blood" is hematopoeisis. formations of WHITE BLOOD CELLS is termed " leukopoeisis"

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Leukemia is an excess of white blood cells. Leukopenia is a deficiency of white blood cells.

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Leukemia is a cancerous condition of white blood cells

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Leukocytoid means resembling a white cell.

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Erythropoeisis is the medical term meaning formation of red blood cells, or erythrocytes.

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The medical term that means cancer of the white blood cells is chronic lymphocytic leukemia. It is often found by routine blood tests.

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Leukocytosis means an elevated white blood cell count.

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