Lymphocyte

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    an agranulocytic leukocyte that normally makes up a quarter of the white blood cell count but increases in the presence of infection wordnet

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lymph cell

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"Scientists say the modified T cells, injected into the patients following standard chemotherapy, homed in on the cancerous B cells inside the bone marrow, each T lymphocyte killing thousands of tumor cells."

Etymology

From lympho- + -cyte.

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