Your differential WBC count, in addition to your WBC count, provides your doctor with useful information to determine if you are sick, and how to treat you. How would your doctor interpret the following information? (a) Patient X, WBC count of 80,000 wbc/mm3?  (b) Patient Y, WBC count of 2,000 wbc/mm3?  (c) Patient Z, WBC = 753,000 wbc/mm3. What is the general term for this?

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