neutrophil
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English
Etymology
From German Neutrophil, from neutro- (“neutro-”) + -phil (“-phile”), equivalent to neutro- + -phil.
Pronunciation
Adjective
neutrophil
- (biology, medicine) Of a cell: being more easily or more fully stained by neutral dyes than by acidic or alkaline (basic) ones.
Translations
easily stained by neutral dyes
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Noun
neutrophil (plural neutrophils)
- (biology, medicine) Such a cell, especially a particular type of white blood cell.
- 2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 89:
- One litre of human blood contains about five billion neutrophils (around half of all white blood cells).
Synonyms
Hypernyms
- granulocyte
- multinuclear leukocyte
- polymorphonuclear leukocyte
- PMN
- PML