blood count

1. 1.

   the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample

   Broadercount
2. 2.

   the act of estimating the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample

   Broadercount

   Narrowercomplete blood countdifferential blood count

Questions about blood count

What does blood count mean?

blood count means "the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is blood count a common word?

blood count is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.