lymphocyte

English

Etymology

From lympho- +‎ -cyte.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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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

• antilymphocyte
• autolymphocyte
• lymphocytic
• lymphocytogenous
• lymphocytoid
• lymphocytolysis
• lymphocytoma
• lymphocytopenia
• lymphocytopoiesis
• lymphocytosis
• lymphocytotoxin
• lymphocytotropic
• lymphokine
• prolymphocyte

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
• Dutch: lymfocyt (nl) 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 (ja) (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

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.