GRANULOCYTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does granulocyte mean? 

• GRANULOCYTE (noun)
  The noun GRANULOCYTE has 1 sense:

1. a leukocyte that has granules in its cytoplasm

  Familiarity information: GRANULOCYTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRANULOCYTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A leukocyte that has granules in its cytoplasm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("granulocyte" is a kind of...):

leucocyte; leukocyte; WBC; white blood cell; white blood corpuscle; white cell; white corpuscle (blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system)

Derivation:

granulocytic (of or relating to granulocytes)

 Context examples 

A mixture of cells possessing a single nucleus, including monocytes and lymphocytes; blood leukocytes from which granulocytes have been separated and removed.

(Mononucleated Blood Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Myeloblasts become mature white blood cells called granulocytes (neutrophils, basophils, and eosinophils).

(Myeloblast, NCI Dictionary)

HSCs can differentiate into common myeloid progenitors (CMPs), which then differentiate into granulocyte/macrophage progenitors (GMPs).

(Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

A long-acting pegylated form of a recombinant therapeutic agent which is chemically identical to or similar to an endogenous human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF).

(Pegfilgrastim, NCI Thesaurus)

Chloroacetate esterase (CAE) is a cytochemical staining technique to specifically identify cells of the granulocyte lineage, from the early promyelocyte stage to mature neutrophils.

(Chloroacetate Esterase Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

Cells which include the monocytes and the granulocytes.

(Myeloid Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

A progressive, proliferative disease of blood cells, originating from immature granulocytes.

(Myeloid Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A genetic disorder characterized by defective polymorphonuclear cell actin function, resulting in impaired granulocyte motility.

(Neutrophil Actin Defect, NCI Thesaurus)

Encoded by the HCK proto-oncogene, HCK appears to be a SRC-family tyrosine kinase, expressed primarily in hematopoietic cells, especially of myeloid lineage and particularly in mature granulocytes and monocytes.

(p59-HCK, NCI Thesaurus)

A neutrophil is a type of white blood cell, a type of granulocyte, and a type of phagocyte.

(Neutrophil, NCI Dictionary)