granulocyte
nounUK /ˈɡɹan.jə.ləʊˌsaɪt/ · CA, US /ˈɡɹæn.jə.loʊˌsaɪt/
Etymology From granule + -o- + -cyte.
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Biology, Cytology, Immunology, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences Any of various white blood cells that have granules in their cytoplasm.
- 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".1908 September 23, 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:
- Derived terms
- antigranulocyte, basophilic granulocyte, eosinophil granulocyte, eosinophilic granulocyte, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor, granulocytic, granulocytopenia, granulocytopenic, granulocytosis, neutrophil granulocyte, neutrophilic granulocyte
- Hypernyms
- leucocyte, leukocyte, white blood cell, WBC
- Hyponyms
- basophil, eosinophil, mast cell, multinuclear leukocyte, neutrophil, polymorphonuclear leukocyte = PMN = PML, semigranulocyte
- Coordinate terms
- agranulocyte, progranulocyte