PLASMACYTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plasmacyte mean? 

• PLASMACYTE (noun)
  The noun PLASMACYTE 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: PLASMACYTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLASMACYTE (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 ("plasmacyte" 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 "plasmacyte"):

plasmablast (the precursor of a plasma cell)

 Context examples 

A plasmacyte is a type of white blood cell.

(Plasmacyte, NCI Dictionary)

A relative measurement (ratio or percentage) of the mature plasma cells (plasmacytes) to total cells in a biological specimen (for example a bone marrow specimen).

(Plasma Cell to Total Cell Ratio Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Also called plasmacyte.

(Plasma cell, NCI Dictionary)

Plasmacytes develop from B cells that have been activated.

(Plasmacyte, NCI Dictionary)