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The number of granulocytes categorized as band neutrophils in a specified volume of blood. A band neutrophil is an immature neutrophil with a horse-shoe or parallel-sided shaped nucleus and represents the final stage of differentiation before the mature segmented neutrophil.
Synonyms:
exact_synonym:
band neutrophil granulocyte count
related_synonym:
rod neutrophil count; stab form leukocyte count; stab neutrophil count