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BLOOD COUNT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of estimating the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("blood count" is a kind of...):
count; counting; enumeration; numeration; reckoning; tally (the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blood count"):
blood profile; CBC; complete blood count (counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood)
differential blood count (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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("blood count" is a kind of...):
count (the total number counted)
