DIFFERENTIAL BLOOD COUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does differential blood count mean? 

• DIFFERENTIAL BLOOD COUNT (noun)
  The noun DIFFERENTIAL BLOOD COUNT has 1 sense:

1. counting the number of specific types of white blood cells found in 1 cubic millimeter of blood; may be included as part of a complete blood count

  Familiarity information: DIFFERENTIAL BLOOD COUNT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIFFERENTIAL BLOOD COUNT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Counting the number of specific types of white blood cells found in 1 cubic millimeter of blood; may be included as part of a complete blood count

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Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("differential blood count" is a kind of...):

blood count (the act of estimating the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample)