Monocyte

Definition: Monocyte

Monocyte

Noun

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

Specialty Definition: Monocyte

Domain	Definition
Health	A type of white blood cell. (references)
Medicine	Large motile, amoeboid, phagocytic cell with an indented nucleus. Found in normal blood. Derived from promonocytes in bone marrow and is the blood representative of the mononuclear phagocyte system. Source: European Union. (references)
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Crosswords: Monocyte

English words defined with "monocyte": monoblast. (references)

Specialty definitions using "monocyte": Antibody-Dependent Cell Cytotoxicity ♦ E-Selectin ♦ Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1, Monocyte Chemoattractant Proteins, monocyte chemotactic peptide ♦ Rosette Formation. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Monocyte

Domain	Title
Books	Disorders of the Monocyte MacRophage System: Pathophysiological and Clinical Aspects (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Monocyte

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	This is a scanning electron microscope image from normal circulating human blood. One can see red blood cells, several white blood cells including lymphocytes, a monocyte, a neutrophil, and many small disc-shaped platelets. Red cells are nonnucleated, and contain hemoglobin, containing iron an important protein which allows the cell to carry oxygen to other parts of the body. They also carry away carbon dioxide from the lungs. The infection-fighting white blood cells, are classified in 2 main groups: granular and agranular. Granulocytes are formed in bone marrow, agranulocytes are produced by lymph nodes and spleen. There are two types of agranulocytes: lymphocytes, fight disease by producing antibodies and thus destroying foreign material, and monocytes. Platelets are tiny cells formed in bone marrow and are necessary for blood clotting. Credit: Bruce Wetzel (photographer). Harry Schaefer (phot.		Monocyte with ingested malaria parasite. Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Monocyte

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Additionally, there are large white blood cells known as phagocytes (neutrophil and monocyte). (references)
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Usage Frequency: Monocyte

"Monocyte" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Monocyte" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Monocyte

Expressions using "monocyte": Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 ♦ Monocyte Chemoattractant Proteins ♦ monocyte chemotactic peptide. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "monocyte": monocyte-macrophage, monocyte-rich.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Monocyte

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
monocyte	55
count low monocyte	3
isolation monocyte	3
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Modern Translation: Monocyte

Language		Translations for "monocyte"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		monocyt. (various references)

Dutch		monocyten. (various references)

Finnish		monosyytti. (various references)

French		monocyte. (various references)

German		Monozyt. (various references)

Greek		μονοκύτταρο. (various references)

Italian		monocito. (various references)

Pig Latin		onocytemay

Portuguese		monócito. (various references)

Spanish		monocito. (various references)

Swedish		monocyt (mononuclear phagocyte). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Monocyte

Derivations
	Words beginning with "monocyte": monocytes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Monocyte

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-m-n-o-o-t-y"
	-1 letter: economy, monoecy.
	-2 letters: coyote, etymon, oocyte, tycoon.
	-3 letters: cento, comet, comte, coney, conte, conto, cooey, cyton, money, monte, moony, motey, toney, toyon.
	-4 letters: cent, come, cone, cony, coon, coot, cote, cyme, meno, mono, mony, moon, moot, mote, nome, note, omen, once, onto, tome, tone, tony, toom, toon, toyo, tyne.
	-5 letters: con, coo, cot, coy, eon.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-m-n-o-o-t-y"
	+1 letter: monocytes.
	+2 letters: mycetozoan.
	+3 letters: chronometry, gonadectomy, mycetozoans.
	+4 letters: commendatory, compensatory, condemnatory, contemporary, countrywomen, monophyletic, nonhemolytic.
	+5 letters: actinomycoses, chemotaxonomy, coterminously, countermelody, endosymbiotic, monocotyledon, pneumonectomy, postembryonic, tonsillectomy.
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