PLASMA CELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plasma cell mean? 

• PLASMA CELL (noun)
  The noun PLASMA CELL has 1 sense:

1. a cell that develops from a B lymphocyte in reaction to a specific antigen; found in bone marrow and sometimes in the blood

  Familiarity information: PLASMA CELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLASMA CELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cell that develops from a B lymphocyte in reaction to a specific antigen; found in bone marrow and sometimes in the blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

plasma cell; plasmacyte

Hypernyms ("plasma cell" is a kind of...):

lymph cell; lymphocyte (an agranulocytic leukocyte that normally makes up a quarter of the white blood cell count but increases in the presence of infection)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plasma cell"):

plasmablast (the precursor of a plasma cell)

 Context examples 

Plasma cell myeloma that fits in neither stage I nor stage III.

(DS Stage II Plasma Cell Myeloma, NCI Thesaurus/PDQ)

Plasma cell myeloma with one or more of the following:

(DS Stage III Plasma Cell Myeloma, NCI Thesaurus/PDQ)

Plasma cell myeloma with all of the following: 1.

(DS Stage I Plasma Cell Myeloma, NCI Thesaurus/PDQ)

Inflammation is primarily composed of lymphocytes and plasma cells.

(Diffuse Chronic Lymphoplasmacytic Enteritis of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A morphologic finding indicating the presence of reactive lymphocytes, lymphoplasmacytic cells, and/or reactive plasma cells in a tissue sample.

(Chronic Inflammatory Infiltrate, NCI Thesaurus)

A primary immunodeficiency characterized by low levels or absence of all the immunoglobulin classes and lack of B-lymphocytes or plasma cells.

(Common Variable Immunodeficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

A plasma cell neoplasm arising at an extraosseous site.

(Extraosseous Plasmacytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A plasma cell disorder in which an abnormal amount of a single immunoglobulin is present in the serum.

(Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, NCI Thesaurus)

Plasma cells develop from B cells that have been activated.

(Plasma cell, NCI Dictionary)

Cancer that arises in plasma cells, a type of white blood cell.

(Myeloma, NCI Dictionary)