Medical Definition of Cytotoxic t-cell

1. Subset of T lymphocytes (mostly CD8) responsible for lysing target cells and for killing virus infected cells (in the context of Class I histocompatibility antigens). This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cytotoxic T-cell

cytotaxis
cytotaxonomic
cytotaxonomies
cytotaxonomy
cytotechnology
cytothesis
cytotoxic
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cytotoxicities
cytotoxicity
cytotoxicity
cytotoxic cell
cytotoxic drug
cytotoxic drugs
cytotoxic reaction
cytotoxic T-cell
cytotoxic t-lymphocyte
cytotoxic T cell
cytotoxic T lymphocyte-specific serine protease
cytotoxin
cytotoxin
cytotoxins
cytotoxins
cytotrophoblast
cytotrophoblastic cells
cytotrophoblastic shell
cytotropic
cytotropic antibody
cytotropic antibody test
cytotropism

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