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MONOCYTE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A type of granular leukocyte that functions in the ingestion of bacteria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("monocyte" 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "monocyte"):
monoblast (a large immature monocyte normally found in bone marrow)
Context examples:
The determination of the ratio of monocytes compared to total cells present in a sample.
(Monocytes to Total Cell Ratio Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)
A relative measurement (ratio or percentage) of the monocytes to total cells in a biological specimen (for example a bone marrow specimen).
(Monocytes to Total Cell Ratio Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The determination of the ratio of monocytes compared to leukocytes in a blood sample.
(Monocyte to Leukocyte Ratio, NCI Thesaurus)
A selective cytochemical monocyte marker for alpha-naphthyl butyrate at pH 6.1.
(Alpha-naphthyl Butyrate Esterase, NCI Thesaurus)
Group of chemokines with adjacent cysteines that are chemoattractants for lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, basophils but not neutrophils.
(Beta Chemokine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
This supply was refilled by monocytes, immune cells recruited from the blood.
(Meningitis changes immune cell makeup in the mouse brain lining, National Institutes of Health)
Chemokines without the ELR sequence motif appear to chemoattract and activate monocytes, dendritic cells, T-cells, NK-cells, B-lymphocytes, basophils, and eosinophils.
(Alpha Chemokine, NCI Thesaurus)
An acute leukemia characterized by the proliferation of both neutrophil and monocyte precursors.
(Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene plays a role in cellular adhesion events involving immune cells, such as monocytes and leukocytes.
(ALCAM Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
The engineered mice also developed atherosclerosis that was spurred by monocytes lacking vitamin D receptors.
(How Vitamin D May Affect Heart Disease, Diabetes, NIH)
