granulocyte

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-nóm

Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂-nós

Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm

Proto-Italic *grānom

Latin grānum

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin ulum

Latin grānulumbor.

French granulebor.

English granule

Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.

Latin -o-bor.

English -o-

Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos)der.

Latin cytader.

English -cyte

English granulocyte

From granule + -o- + -cyte.

Pronunciation

• enPR: grăn′yə-lō-sīt′
• (Received Pronunciation, contemporary) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹan.jə.ləʊˌsaɪt/

  (Received Pronunciation, conservatism) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæn.jə.ləʊˌsaɪt/

  Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæn.jə.loʊˌsaɪt/

  (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæn.jə.loʊˌsʌɪt/

• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæn.jə.ləʉˌsɑet/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɛn.jə.lɐʉˌsaɪt/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹan.jə.loˌsaɪt/, /ˈɡɹan.jə.loˌsʌi̯t/, /ˈɡɹan.jə.loˌsəi̯t/
• Rhymes: -anjələʊsaɪt, -ænjələʊsaɪt
• Hyphenation: gran‧u‧lo‧cyte

Noun

granulocyte (plural granulocytes)

1. (cytology, immunology) Any of various white blood cells that have granules in their cytoplasm.
   • 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:

     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 lymphocytes".

Hypernyms

• leucocyte
• leukocyte
• white blood cell
• WBC

Hyponyms

• basophil
• eosinophil
• mast cell
• multinuclear leukocyte
• neutrophil (the most abundant type)
• polymorphonuclear leukocyte = PMN = PML
• semigranulocyte

Coordinate terms

• agranulocyte
• progranulocyte

Derived terms

• antigranulocyte
• basophilic granulocyte
• eosinophil granulocyte
• eosinophilic granulocyte
• granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
• granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor
• granulocytic
• granulocytopenia
• granulocytopenic
• granulocytosis
• neutrophil granulocyte
• neutrophilic granulocyte

Translations

blood cell

• Czech: granulocyt m inan
• Dutch: granulocyt (nl) m
• French: granulocyte (fr) m
• Hungarian: granulocita (hu)
• Italian: granulocita (it) m
• Japanese: 顆粒球 (かりゅうきゅう, karyūkyū)
• Polish: granulocyt (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: granulócito (pt) m
• Swedish: granulocyt (sv) c

Anagrams

• Alger County, glycuronate

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡranulot͡sɪtɛ]

Noun

granulocyte

1. vocative singular of granulocyt

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.ny.lɔ.sit/
• Hyphenation: gra‧nu‧lo‧cyte

Noun

granulocyte m (plural granulocytes)

1. (cytology, immunology) granulocyte (blood cell)

Further reading

• “granulocyte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012