granulocyte

English

Etymology

granule +‎ -o- +‎ -cyte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹænjəloʊˌsaɪt/

Noun

granulocyte (plural granulocytes)

1. (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

• leucocyte
• leukocyte
• white blood cell
• WBC

Hyponyms

• basophil
• eosinophil
• mast cell
• multinuclear leukocyte
• neutrophil (the most abundant type)
• polymorphonuclear leukocyte = PMN = PML
• semigranulocyte

Coordinate terms

• agranulocyte
• progranulocyte

Derived terms

• eosinophil granulocyte
• granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
• granulocytic
• granulocytopenia
• granulocytosis

 

Translations

blood cell

• Czech: granulocyt m
• Dutch: granulocyt (nl) m
• Hungarian: granulocita (hu)
• Italian: granulocita (it) m
• Japanese: 顆粒球 (かりゅうきゅう, karyūkyū)
• Polish: granulocyt (pl) m
• Swedish: granulocyt (sv) c

Anagrams

• Alger County, glycuronate

French

Noun

granulocyte m (plural granulocytes)

1. granulocyte

Further reading

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