LYMPHOID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lymphoid mean? 

• LYMPHOID (adjective)
  The adjective LYMPHOID has 1 sense:

1. resembling lymph or lymphatic tissues

  Familiarity information: LYMPHOID used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYMPHOID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling lymph or lymphatic tissues

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

lymph (a thin coagulable fluid (similar to plasma but) containing white blood cells (lymphocytes) and chyle; is conveyed to the blood stream by lymphatic vessels)

 Context examples 

A preparation of cytotoxic, autologous lymphoid effector cells specifically targeted towards tumor cells, with potential immunomodulating and antineoplastic activities.

(Autologous Lymphoid Effector Cells Specific Against Tumor Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

In a minority of cases, changes of angiofollicular lymphoid hyperplasia of the hyaline-vascular type are seen.

(Multicentric Angiofollicular Lymphoid Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in the development of both lymphoid tissue and the peripheral nervous system.

(Artemin, NCI Thesaurus)

This rearrangement is associated with both lymphoid and myeloid leukemia.

(MLLT10/PICALM Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

In the hyaline vascular type there are hyalinized vessels present in the lymphoid follicles.

(Angiofollicular Lymphoid Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

Cells of the lymphoid series that can react with antigen to produce specific cell products called antibodies.

(Antibody-Producing Cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A precursor lymphoid neoplasm composed of B-lymphoblasts which contain less than 46 chromosomes.

(B Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma with Hypodiploidy, NCI Thesaurus)

A precursor lymphoid neoplasm which is composed of B-lymphoblasts and carries a translocation between the E2A gene on chromosome 19 and the PBX1 gene on chromosome 1.

(B Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma with t(1;19)(q23;p13.3); E2A-PBX1 (TCF3-PBX1), NCI Thesaurus)

A murine virus arising during the propagation of S37 mouse sarcoma, and causing lymphoid leukemia in mice.

(Moloney Leukemia Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes myeloid/lymphoid or mixed-lineage leukemia protein 2, is involved in an estrogen receptor alpha co-activation complex that is necessary for estrogen-induced gene expression.

(MLL2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)