In medicine, pleocytosis (or pleiocytosis) is an increased cell count (from Greek pleion, "more"), particularly an increase in white blood cell count, in a bodily fluid, such as cerebrospinal fluid.
[1] It is often defined specifically as an increased white blood cell count in cerebrospinal fluid.
[2] Increased white blood cell count in the blood is called leukocytosis.
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