lymphocyte

lymphocyte

English

Etymology

From lympho- +‎ -cyte.

Noun

lymphocyte (plural lymphocytes)

1. (cytology, immunology) Any of several types of white blood cell with a spherical nucleus occurring in the lymphatic system, including B cells, T cells and natural killer cells.

Hypernyms

• leucocyte = leukocyte = white blood cell = WBC > agranulocyte

Hyponyms

• B lymphocyte, B cell
• T lymphocyte, T cell
• See also Thesaurus:lymphocyte

Derived terms

• lymphocytic
• lymphocytoid

Translations

type of white blood cell

Catalan: limfòcit (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 淋巴細胞／淋巴细胞 (zh) (línbāxìbāo) Czech: lymfocyt (cs) m French: lymphocyte (fr) m German: Lymphozyt (de) m Greek: λεμφοκύτταρο (el) n (lemfokýttaro) Hindi: लसीकाणु m (lasīkāṇu) Hungarian: limfocita (hu) Icelandic: eitilfruma f Italian: linfocita (it) m, linfocito (it) Japanese: リンパ球 (リンパきゅう, rinpakyū) Kazakh: лимфоцит (limfosit) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: lîmfexane f, xaneya lîmfê f, xaneya lîmfê f Portuguese: linfócito (pt) Romanian: limfocit (ro), limfocită (ro) f Russian: лимфоци́т (ru) m (limfocít) Spanish: linfocito (es) Swedish: lymfocyt (sv) c Turkish: lenfosit (tr), ak kan hücresi

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French

Etymology

From lymphe +‎ -o- +‎ -cyte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛ̃.fɔ.sit/

• Audio (Switzerland)

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• Homophone: lymphocytes

Noun

lymphocyte m (plural lymphocytes)

1. (cytology) lymphocyte

Further reading

• “lymphocyte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.