leukocyte

English

Alternative forms

• leucocyte (UK)

Etymology

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English leuko-

Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos)der.

Latin cytader.

English -cyte

English leukocyte

From leuko- + -cyte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluːkə(ʊ)sʌɪt/

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Noun

leukocyte (plural leukocytes)

1. (hematology, cytology, immunology) Any of a class of blood cells that play various roles in cell-mediated immunity.
   • 1923, International Medical Digest, page 316:

     In disease of the spleen, especially Banti's disease or fibro-adenia of the spleen, the increase of leukocytes is absent or slight, with no relative lymphocytosis.

   • 2022 March 17, Joan T. Merrill, Victoria P. Werth, Richard Furie et al., “Phase 2 Trial of Iberdomide in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 386, number 11, →DOI, page 1034:

     Iberdomide, a cereblon modulator promoting degradation of the transcription factors Ikaros and Aiolos, which affect leukocyte development and autoimmunity, is being evaluated for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

Synonyms

• white blood cell, WBC

Hypernyms

• blood cell, hemocyte

Hyponyms

• granulocyte (and its hyponyms)
• lymphocyte (and its hyponyms)
• myelocyte

Coordinate terms

• erythrocyte, red blood cell, RBC
• thrombocyte, platelet

Derived terms

• human leukocyte antigen
• interleukocyte
• intraleukocyte, intraleukocytic
• leukocytapheresis
• leukocytemia
• leukocytic
• leukocytoclasia
• leukocytoclastic
• leukocytoid
• leukocytopenia
• leukocytopoiesis
• leukocytopoietic
• leukocytosis
• leukocytospermia
• leukocytotropic
• leukocyturia
• panleukocyte
• PMN leukocyte
• polymorphonuclear leukocyte
• secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor

Translations

scientific name for white blood cell — see also white blood cell

• Bulgarian: левкоцит (bg) m (levkocit)
• Catalan: leucòcit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白血球 (zh) (báixuèqiú), 白細胞 / 白细胞 (zh) (báixìbāo)

• Czech: leukocyt (cs) m
• Danish: leukocyt c
• Dutch: leukocyt (nl) m, witte bloedcel f
• Esperanto: leŭkocito
• Finnish: valkosolu (fi), leukosyytti (fi)
• French: leucocyte (fr) m
• German: Leukozyt (de) m, weißes Blutkörperchen (de) n
• Greek: λευκό αιμοσφαίριο (el) n (lefkó aimosfaírio)
• Gujarati: શ્વેતકણ (śvetkaṇ)
• Hebrew: תא דם לבן (he), לויקוציט
• Hindi: श्वेताणु (śvetāṇu), श्वेत रक्त कोशिका f (śvet rakt kośikā)
• Hungarian: leukocita (hu), fehérvérsejt (hu)
• Indonesian: leukosit (id), sel darah putih (id)
• Irish: leocaicít f, fuilchill bhán f
• Italian: leucocita (it) m
• Japanese: 白血球 (ja) (はっけっきゅう, hakkekkyū)
• Korean: 백혈구(白血球) (ko) (baekhyeolgu)
• Latin: leucocytus m
• Latvian: leikocīts m
• Lithuanian: leukoci̇̀tas m
• Māori: pūtau toto mā
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: leukocytt m, levkocytt m

  Nynorsk: leukocytt m, levkocytt m

• Polish: leukocyt (pl) m, krwinka biała (pl) f
• Portuguese: leucócito (pt) m
• Russian: лейкоци́т (ru) m (lejkocít)
• Spanish: leucocito (es) m
• Swedish: leukocyt (sv), vit blodkropp (sv)
• Tagalog: puting sihay-dugo
• Turkish: akyuvar (tr), lökosit (tr)
• Ukrainian: лейкоци́т m (lejkocýt)
• Vietnamese: bạch huyết cầu (vi) (白血球)
• Welsh: lewcosyt f, cell wen f