| leukocytic pyrogens | Fever producing substance released by leucocytes (and Kuppfer cells in particular) that acts on the hypothalamic thermoregulatory centre. Now known to be interleukin-1. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| pyrogen | <cell biology> Substance or agent that produces fever. The major endogenous pyrogen in mammals is probably interleukin-1. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| endogenous pyrogen | Fever producing substance released by leucocytes (and Kuppfer cells in particular) that acts on the hypothalamic thermoregulatory centre. Now known to be interleukin-1. (18 Nov 1997) |
| leukocytic | Pertaining to or characterised by leukocytes. Synonym: leukocytal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| leukocytic sarcoma | <haematology> An acute or chronic disease of unknown cause in man and other warm blooded animals that involves the blood forming organs, is characterised by an abnormal increase in the number of leucocytes in the tissues of the body with or without a corresponding increase of those in the circulating blood and is classified according of the type leucocyte most prominently involved. (18 Nov 1997) |