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NEUTROPHILE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The chief phagocytic leukocyte; stains with either basic or acid dyes
Synonyms:
neutrophil; neutrophile
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("neutrophile" is a kind of...):
leucocyte; leukocyte; WBC; white blood cell; white blood corpuscle; white cell; white corpuscle (blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neutrophile"):
microphage (a neutrophil that ingests small things (as bacteria))
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