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neutrophil
neutrophil
English
Adjective
neutrophil (comparative more neutrophil, superlative most neutrophil)
- (biology, medicine) Of a cell: being more easily or more fully stained by neutral dyes than by acidic or alkaline (basic) ones.
Translations
easily stained by neutral dyes
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Noun
neutrophil (plural neutrophils)
- (biology, medicine) Such a cell, especially a white blood cell.
- 2011, Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2011, p. 89:
- One litre of human blood contains about five billion neutrophils (around half of all white blood cells).
- 2011, Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2011, p. 89:
Synonyms
- neutrophil granulocyte