white blood cell
nounDefinition of white blood cell
: any of the blood cells that are colorless, lack hemoglobin, contain a nucleus, and include the lymphocytes, monocytes, neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils
— called also leukocyte, white blood corpuscle, white cell
— compare red blood cellExamples of white blood cell in a Sentence
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This process causes your body to produce white blood cells called T-lymphocytes, which will stick around in your body and remember the pathogen as well as how to respond to it. — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, "What Parents Need to Know About the Immunization Schedule for Kids," 26 Aug. 2019 An even better solution, some have posited, would be to mine the serum of Ebola survivors and harvest the DNA from the white blood cells that make antibodies. — Megan Molteni, WIRED, "Ebola Is Now Curable. Here’s How the New Treatments Work," 12 Aug. 2019 One of the most common forms of lymphoma, a cancer of the white blood cells, B cell lymphoma is generally found in the lymph nodes or spleen. — Sandra G. Boodman, Washington Post, "Doctors told this 20-year-old his back pain wasn’t serious. Then he couldn’t walk.," 6 Mar. 2018 The responsibility falls largely on the shoulders of T-cells, white blood cells with specialized receptors embedded in their surface that allow them to bind uniquely to diverse peptide fragments. — Quanta Magazine, "Immune Cells Measure Time to Identify Foreign Proteins," 3 June 2019 These include overactive white blood cells and a tendency to diabetes in mice lacking the sialic acid. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Heart disease is the price of becoming human, UCSD study finds," 22 July 2019 The first method used, which compared antigens on the white blood cells of parents and children, could establish paternity with an accuracy rate of eighty per cent. — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, "The Paternity Reveal," 24 June 2019 During the platelet donation procedure, a machine is used to separate the platelets in your blood from the other red blood cells and white blood cells through a process called apheresis. — NBC News, "Here's what you need to know about donating blood," 14 June 2019 But lymphatic system fluid — which contains white blood cells and plays an important role in protecting the body from germs and disease — flows more slowly and can be helped along manually. — Elizabeth Kiefer, The Seattle Times, "Jade rollers: Puffy-eye wonder cure or sham?," 26 Mar. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'white blood cell.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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