granulocyte
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granulocyte (plural granulocytes)
- (cytology, immunology) Any of various 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".
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blood cell
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