Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Schil·ling index Pronunciation:
'shil-i[ng]- Function:
noun : an age classification of blood neutrophils which is based on increasingirregularity or lobulation of the nucleus and in which the classes are myelocytes, metamyelocytes, band forms, and mature neutrophils having nuclei with two or more lobes —compare
ARNETH INDEX
Schilling, Victor Theodor Adolf Georg (1883–1960), German hematologist. Schillingintroduced in 1924 a differential count of white blood cells, dividing the neutrophil cells into four groups.
