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granulocyte

Syllables: gran·u·lo·cyte/ˈɡɹæn.jə.ləʊˌsaɪt//ˈɡɹan.jə.ləʊˌsaɪt/

granulocyte noun: any of various white blood cells that have granules in their cytoplasm.

Noun

granulocyte (plural granulocytes)

  1. Any of various white blood cells that have granules in their cytoplasm.
    • This is easily explained, because pathological cells that are only occasional wanderers into the free circulation, aside from the granulocyte group, probably all are "mononuclear" , "non-granular", and "large" , characteristics which, all authors agree, brand cells as belonging to the "large...1908 September, Charles A. Elliott, “The atypical and large mononuclear cells of the blood”, in Quarterly Bulletin of the Northwestern University Medical School, volume 10, number 2, page 2

granulocyte meaning in Tamil and Bengali

granulocyte in Tamil

சிறுமணிக்கலம், புள்ளிச் செல், சிறுமணிக்குழியம், குறுமணிகளை உடைய செல்

granulocyte in Bengali

দানাদার শ্বেত রক্তকণিকা, গ্রানুলোসাইট

Forms of granulocyte

pluralgranulocytes

Origin of granulocyte

From granule + -o- + -cyte.

Words formed from granulocyte

Questions about granulocyte

What does granulocyte mean?
Granulocyte means any of various white blood cells that have granules in their cytoplasm.
What is granulocyte in Tamil?
Granulocyte in Tamil is சிறுமணிக்கலம், புள்ளிச் செல், சிறுமணிக்குழியம். See Granulocyte meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is granulocyte?
Granulocyte is a noun.
How do you pronounce granulocyte?
Granulocyte is pronounced /ˈɡɹan.jə.ləʊˌsaɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of granulocyte?
The plural of granulocyte is granulocytes.

Words near granulocyte in the dictionary

  1. granuloblastoma
  2. granuloblastomas
  3. granuloblasts
  4. granulocrine
  5. granulocytapheresis
  6. granulocyte
  7. granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
  8. granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor
  9. granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptors
  10. granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factors
  11. granulocytes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: granulocyte (page history and authors); granulocyte (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); granulocyte (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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