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neutrophil en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From German Neutrophil, from neutro- (“neutro-”) + -phil (“-phile”), equivalent to neutro- + -phil.
Meanings
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Of a cell: being more easily or more fully stained by neutral dyes than by acidic or alkaline (basic) ones.
Deriveds
antineutrophil · neutropenia · neutrophilic · myeloneutrophil
Translations (7)
kmr nêtrofîl (easily stained by neutral dyes) · es neutrófilo (easily stained by neutral dyes) · pt neutrófilo (easily stained by neutral dyes) · it neutrofilo (easily stained by neutral dyes) · fr neutrophile (easily stained by neutral dyes) · kmr nêtrofîl (easily stained by neutral dyes) · sv neutrofil (easily stained by neutral dyes)
neutrophil en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From German Neutrophil, from neutro- (“neutro-”) + -phil (“-phile”), equivalent to neutro- + -phil.
Meanings
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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:All mammals naturally make hypochlorous acid to fight infection. When you cut yourself, for instance, white blood cells known as neutrophils go to the site of injury, capturing any invading pathogens.
2025 May 1, Jen Schwartz, “The magic molecule”, in Scientific American, volume 332, number 5, pages 54-55: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:
Forms
Hypernyms
PMN · polymorphonuclear leukocyte · PML · reverse-transmigratory neutrophil · granulocyte · multinuclear leukocyte
Synonyms
neutrophilic granulocyte · neutrophil granulocyte