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neutrophil

UK/ˈnjuːtɹəfɪl/

neutrophil adjective: of a cell: being more easily or more fully stained by neutral dyes than by acidic or alkaline (basic) ones.

Adjective

neutrophil

  1. Of a cell: being more easily or more fully stained by neutral dyes than by acidic or alkaline (basic) ones.

Noun

neutrophil (plural neutrophils)

  1. Such a cell, especially a particular type of white blood cell.
    • One litre of human blood contains about five billion neutrophils (around half of all white blood cells).2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 89
    • Chris learned that his level of infection-fighting neutrophil cells, normally churned out by the bone marrow, had fallen so low that his defenses were in tatters.2017 March 29, Mosaic, “The life-saving treatment that’s being thrown in the trash”, in CNN

neutrophil meaning in Tamil and Bengali

neutrophil in Tamil

ஒரு வகை இரத்த வௌளணு, பல முனை வௌளணுக் கரு, நியூட்ரோஃபில்

neutrophil in Bengali

এই ধরনের কোষ

Examples of neutrophil in a sentence

  • However, during systemic inflammation, immunoparalysis may occur resulting in neutrophil dysfunction.
  • Afonso et al observed that human necrotic, but not apoptotic, neutrophils induced in vitro leishmanicidal activity mediated by macrophages.
  • Part of the resolution of inflammation, particularly the removal of accumulated neutrophils, is because neutrophils are induced to apoptose (43).

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Synonyms of neutrophil

Forms of neutrophil

pluralneutrophils

Origin of neutrophil

From German Neutrophil, from neutro- (“neutro-”) + -phil (“-phile”), equivalent to neutro- + -phil.

Words formed from neutrophil

Phrases with neutrophil

Questions about neutrophil

What does neutrophil mean?
Neutrophil means of a cell: being more easily or more fully stained by neutral dyes than by acidic or alkaline (basic) ones.
What is neutrophil in Tamil?
Neutrophil in Tamil is ஒரு வகை இரத்த வௌளணு, பல முனை வௌளணுக் கரு, நியூட்ரோஃபில். See Neutrophil meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is neutrophil?
Neutrophil can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce neutrophil?
Neutrophil is pronounced /ˈnjuːtɹəfɪl/ (UK).

Words near neutrophil in the dictionary

  1. neutropauses
  2. neutropenia
  3. neutropenias
  4. neutropenic
  5. neutropenics
  6. neutrophil
  7. neutrophil granulocyte
  8. neutrophil granulocytes
  9. neutrophile
  10. neutrophiles
  11. neutrophilia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: neutrophil (page history and authors); neutrophil (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); neutrophil (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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