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Definition of Monocyte

1. Noun. A type of granular leukocyte that functions in the ingestion of bacteria.

Definition of Monocyte

1. Noun. (immunology cytology) A type of blood leukocyte that differentiates into a macrophage. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Monocyte

1. a type of white blood cell [n -S]

Medical Definition of Monocyte

1. Mononuclear phagocyte circulating in blood that will later emigrate into tissue and differentiate into a macrophage. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monocyte

Literary usage of Monocyte

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Biology of the Blood-cells with a Glossary of Hæmatological Terms: For by Oskar Cameron Gruner (1914)
"blood-pathological monocyte, bone-marrow monocyte, ... monocyte of pathological blood, ... large mononuclear leucocyte (qv), pathological monocyte. ..."

2. Osteoporosis Research, Education and Health Promotion (1993)
"These accumulated data have prompted the investigation of the relationship between bone remodeling and monocyte secretory products in vitro. ..."

3. Alcohols Effect on Organ Function edited by Dianne M. Welsh (1997)
"monocytes and Macrophages The monocyte-macrophage system, like neutrophils, ... Alcohol interferes with the function of the monocyte- macrophage system, ..."

4. Clinical Examination of the Blood and Its Technique: A Manual for Students by Artur Pappenheim (1914)
"... from the monocyte of normal blood. The distinguishing features are more especially the absence of nucleoli from the nucleus of the myelocyte (see above ..."

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