Leucocyte

Definition: Leucocyte

Leucocyte

Noun

1. Blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system.

Domain	Definitions
Health	All the white cells of the blood and their precursors (myeloid cell series, lymphoid cell series) but commonly used to indicate granulocytes exclusive of lymphocytes. (references)
Medicine	Leucocyte:all the white cells of the blood and their precursors(myeloid cell series, lymphoid cell series)but commonly used to indicate granulocytes exclusive of lymphocytes. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Leucocyte

Synonyms: leukocyte (n), white blood cell (n), white blood corpuscle (n), white cell (n), white corpuscle (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Leucocyte

English words defined with "leucocyte": White blood cell, White cell, White corpuscle. (references)

Specialty definitions using "leucocyte": acidocyte, acidophilic cell, alpha 1-antitrypsin, alpha interferon, alpha-1 ♦ basocyte, basophil leucocyte, basophilic cell ♦ eosinocyte, eosinophil leucocyte ♦ heterophil granulocyte, heterophil leucocyte, human leucocyte antigen ♦ leucocyte interferon, lymphoblast interferon, lymphoblasts, lymphoid leucocyte ♦ neutrocyte, neutrophil granulocyte, neutrophil leucocyte, neutrophilic cell ♦ orthoneutrophil ♦ small mononuclear leucocyte. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Leucocyte" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (leucocyte, leukocyte).

Domain	Title
Books	Immune recognition : proceedings of the ninth Leucocyte Culture Conference (reference) Intercellular Communication in Leucocyte Function (reference) Leucocyte Locomotion and Chemotaxis: 1st International Conference on Leucocyte Locomotion and Chemotaxis, Gersau, May 16-21, 1982 (reference) Leucocyte Typing III: White Cell Differentiation Antigens/Typing Chart Enclosed (reference) Leucocyte Typing IV: White Cell Differentiation Antigens (reference) (more book examples)
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"Leucocyte" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Leucocyte" is used about 21 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%	21	76,261

Expressions using "leucocyte": basophil leucocyte ♦ eosinophil leucocyte ♦ heterophil leucocyte ♦ human leucocyte antigen ♦ leucocyte interferon ♦ lymphoid leucocyte ♦ neutrophil leucocyte ♦ small mononuclear leucocyte. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "leucocyte"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		leukocit (leukocyte), rruazë e bardhë (leukocyte). (various references)

Arabic		‏كروية بيضاء في الدم (leukocyte). (various references)

Bulgarian		левкоцит (leukocyte, white cell). (various references)

Chinese		白血球 (white blood cell), 白細胞 (white blood cell). (various references)

Czech		leukocyt. (various references)

Danish		leukocyt (leukocyte, white blood cell, white blood corpuscle, white cell, white corpuscle), hvidt blodlegeme (leukocyte, white blood cell, white blood corpuscle, white cell, white corpuscle). (various references)

Dutch		lymfoblasten-interferon (alpha interferon, leucocyte interferon, lymphoblast interferon), leukocyten-index van Krebs (Krebs leucocyte index), polymorfnucleaire leucocyt (granulocyte, polymorphonuclear leucocyte), HLA-systeem (human leucocyte antigen), granulocyt (granulocyte, polymorphonuclear leucocyte), eosinofiele leukocyt (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil, eosinophil leucocyte), eosinofiele cel (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil, eosinophil leucocyte), bloedtelling van Schilling (Schilling leucocyte formula), alfa-interferon (alpha interferon, leucocyte interferon, lymphoblast interferon). (various references)

Finnish		lymfosyytti (achroacyte, homeocyte, leukomonocyte, lymph cell, lymph corpuscle, lymphocyte, lymphoid cell, lymphoid corpuscle, lymphoid leucocyte, small mononuclear leucocyte), ihmisen leukosyyttien pinta-antigeeni (human leucocyte antigen), HL-antigeeni (human leucocyte antigen, human leukocyte antigen), eosinosolu (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil, eosinophil leucocyte), eosinofiilinen granulosyytti (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil, eosinophil leucocyte), eosinofiili (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil, eosinophil leucocyte), eosiinimielteinen jyvässolu (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil, eosinophil leucocyte), asidofiili (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil, eosinophil leucocyte), alfa-interferoni (alpha interferon, leucocyte interferon, lymphoblast interferon), �"-interferoni (alpha interferon, leucocyte interferon, lymphoblast interferon). (various references)

French		leucocyte (leukocyte). (various references)

German		leukozyt (leukocyte). (various references)

Greek		ιστοαντιγόνο ΗLΑ (human leucocyte antigen), ηωσινόφιλο κύτταρο (acidocyte, acidophil, acidophilic cell, eosinocyte, eosinophil, eosinophil leucocyte), λεμφοβλαστική ιντερφερόνη (alpha interferon, leucocyte interferon, lymphoblast interferon), λευκοκυτταρική ιντερφερόνη (alpha interferon, leucocyte interferon, lymphoblast interferon), α-ιντερφερόνη (alpha interferon, leucocyte interferon, lymphoblast interferon), ανθρώπινο λευκοκυτταρικό αντιγόνο (human leucocyte antigen). (various references)

Hebrew		ליקוציט. (various references)

Hungarian		leukocita (leukocyte), vérsejt (leukocyte), fehér vérsejt (leukocyte). (various references)

Italian		leucocito (leukocyte), leucocita (leukocyte). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		白血球 (white blood cell). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		はっけっきゅう (white blood cell). (various references)

Pig Latin		eucocytelay

Portuguese		intervalo (break, discontinuous, distance, gap, hiatus, interact, intermarry, intermission, interrecord gap, interruption, Interspace, interval, interval between vines, lull, parenthetic, pause, recess, record gap, respite, rest, slot, time out). (various references)

Romanian		leucocitã. (various references)

Russian		лейкоцит (leukocyte). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		leukocit (leukocyte), belo krvno zrnce. (various references)

Spanish		leucocito (leukocyte, white blood cell, white blood corpuscle, white cell, white corpuscle). (various references)

Swedish		vit blodkropp. (various references)

Turkish		lökosit, akyuvar. (various references)

Ukranian		лейкоцит. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "leucocyte" (pronounced 'Leu"co*cyte'): Gymnocyte, megalocyte, microcyte, Phagocyte, Poikilocyte, spermatocyte. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-l-o-t-u-y"
	-3 letters: coulee, cutely, occult.
	-4 letters: clout, culet, cutey, cycle, cyclo, elect, elute, lycee, octyl.
	-5 letters: celt, cete, clot, cloy, clue, cole, colt, coly, cote, cult, cute, eely, leet, lout, luce, lute, teel, tele, tole, tolu, tule, tyee, yule.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-l-o-t-u-y"
	+3 letters: reticulocyte.
	+4 letters: consecutively, reticulocytes.
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