granulocyte

From granule +‎ -o- +‎ -cyte.

• enPR: grăn′yə-lō-sīt′
• (Received Pronunciation, contemporary) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹan.jə.ləʊˌsaɪt/

  (Received Pronunciation, conservative) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæn.jə.ləʊˌsaɪt/

  Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæn.jə.loʊˌsaɪt/

  (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæn.jə.loʊˌsʌɪt/

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæn.jə.ləʉˌsɑet/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɛn.jə.lɐʉˌsaɪt/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹan.jə.loˌsaɪt/, /ˈɡɹan.jə.loˌsʌi̯t/, /ˈɡɹan.jə.loˌsəi̯t/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾan.ju.loːˌsajt/
• Rhymes: -anjələʊsaɪt, -ænjələʊsaɪt
• Hyphenation: gran‧u‧lo‧cyte

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".

• leucocyte
• leukocyte
• white blood cell
• WBC

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

• agranulocyte
• progranulocyte

• Alger County, glycuronate

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡranulot͡sɪtɛ]

granulocyte

1. vocative singular of granulocyt

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.ny.lɔ.sit/
• Hyphenation: gra‧nu‧lo‧cyte

granulocyte m (plural granulocytes)

1. (cytology, immunology) granulocyte (blood cell)

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