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NEUTROPHIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The chief phagocytic leukocyte; stains with either basic or acid dyes
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("neutrophil" 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 "neutrophil"):
microphage (a neutrophil that ingests small things (as bacteria))
Context examples:
Group of chemokines with adjacent cysteines that are chemoattractants for lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, basophils but not neutrophils.
(Beta Chemokine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
An acute leukemia characterized by the proliferation of both neutrophil and monocyte precursors.
(Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene plays a role in the generation of superoxide in neutrophils.
(NCF2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
Any apoptotic process occurring in a neutrophil, eosinophil or basophil.
(Myeloid Cell Apoptotic Process, NCI Thesaurus)
In contrast, following a heart attack, the skull and tibia provided similar numbers of neutrophils to the heart, which is far from both of those areas.
(Researchers unearth secret tunnels between the skull and the brain, National Institutes of Health)
A decrease in the number of neutrophils in the peripheral blood.
(Neutropenia, NCI Thesaurus)
An abnormal decrease in the number of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell.
(Neutropenia, NCI Dictionary)
A finding based on laboratory test results that indicate a decrease in number of neutrophils in a blood specimen.
(Neutropenia, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
Tissue analysis showed infiltrating immune cells, such as neutrophils, and significant bone destruction.
(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)
The determination of the number of band neutrophils in a blood sample.
(Neutrophil Band Form Count, NCI Thesaurus)
