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PLASMACYTE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cell that develops from a B lymphocyte in reaction to a specific antigen; found in bone marrow and sometimes in the blood
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("plasmacyte" is a kind of...):
lymph cell; lymphocyte (an agranulocytic leukocyte that normally makes up a quarter of the white blood cell count but increases in the presence of infection)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plasmacyte"):
plasmablast (the precursor of a plasma cell)
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