plasmacyte (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *plasmacyte*:
NOUN	body	plasmacyte, plasma cell	a cell that develops from a B lymphocyte in reaction to a specific antigen

English > *plasmacyte*: 1 sense > noun 1, body
Meaning	A cell that develops from a B lymphocyte in reaction to a specific antigen; found in bone marrow and sometimes in the blood.
Synonym	plasma cell
Narrower	plasmablast	The precursor of a plasma cell
Broader	lymphocyte, lymph cell	An agranulocytic leukocyte that normally makes up a quarter of the white blood cell count but increases in the presence of infection
Spanish	plasmocito
Catalan	plasmòcit

HyperDic: plasmacyte