granulocyte
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
granulocyte (plural granulocytes)
- (cytology, immunology) Any of various white blood cells that have granules in their cytoplasm.
- 1908 September, Charles A. Elliott, “The atypical and large mononuclear cells of the blood”, in Quarterly Bulletin of the Northwestern University Medical School, volume 10, number 2, page 2:
- This is easily explained, because pathological cells that are only occasional wanderers into the free circulation, aside from the granulocyte group, probably all are "mononuclear" , "non-granular", and "large" , characteristics which, all authors agree, brand cells as belonging to the "large lymphocytes".
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- basophil
- eosinophil
- mast cell
- multinuclear leukocyte
- neutrophil (the most abundant type)
- polymorphonuclear leukocyte = PMN = PML
- semigranulocyte
Coordinate terms
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Translations
blood cell
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Anagrams
French
Noun
granulocyte m (plural granulocytes)
Further reading
- “granulocyte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.