lymphocyte

English

Etymology

From lympho- +‎ -cyte.

Pronunciation

Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

lymphocyte (plural lymphocytes)

(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

Derived terms

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
Danish: lymfocyt c
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)
Korean: 림프구 (rimpeugu)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: lîmfexane f, xaneya lîmfê f, xaneya lîmfê f
Latvian: limfocīts m
Lithuanian: limfoci̇̀tas m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: lymfocytt m

Nynorsk: lymfocytt m
Persian: لنفوسیت (lanfosit)
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): (file)
Homophone: lymphocytes

Noun

lymphocyte m (plural lymphocytes)

(cytology) lymphocyte

Descendants

→ Persian: لنفوسیت (lanfosit)
→ Turkish: lenfosit

Further reading

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