Granulocytosis

In medicine, granulocytosis is the presence of an increased number of granulocytes in the peripheral blood. Often, the word refers to an increased neutrophil granulocyte count (neutrophilia), but granulocytosis formally refers to the combination of neutrophilia, eosinophilia, and basophilia.^[1] Leukocytosis refers to an increase in the number of all white blood cells.^{[citation needed]}