EOSINOPHIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eosinophil mean? 

• EOSINOPHIL (noun)
  The noun EOSINOPHIL has 1 sense:

1. a leukocyte readily stained with eosin

  Familiarity information: EOSINOPHIL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EOSINOPHIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A leukocyte readily stained with eosin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

eosinophil; eosinophile

Hypernyms ("eosinophil" 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)

Derivation:

eosinophilic (of or relating to eosinophil)

 Context examples 

A primitive, undifferentiated blood cell which can undergo division and give rise to white blood cells in the neutrophil, eosinophil or basophil lines.

(Bone Marrow Stem Cell with Potential to Differentiate to Granulocytic Lineage, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of spindle-shaped myofibroblasts, and a chronic inflammatory infiltrate composed of eosinophils, lymphocytes, and plasma cells.

(Breast Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

CC Cytokine Genes encode Beta Chemokines, CC-type dual-cysteine chemokines with adjacent cysteine residues in their primary sequence that act as chemoattractants for lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, and basophils, but not for neutrophils.

(CC Cytokine Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes eotaxin protein, plays a role in eosinophil chemotactic activity regulation.

(CCL11 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A primitive, undifferentiated blood cell which can undergo division and give rise to white blood cells in the neutrophil, eosinophil, basophil or monocyte lines.

(Bone Marrow Stem Cell with Potential to Differentiate to Granulocytic and Monocytic Lineages, NCI Thesaurus)

A measure of the number of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets in the blood, including the different types of white blood cells (neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, basophils, and eosinophils).

(Blood cell count with differential, NCI Dictionary)

Encoded by CC Cytokine Genes, Beta Chemokines are CC-type dual-cysteine chemokines with adjacent cysteine residues in their primary sequence that act as chemoattractants for lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, and basophils, but not for neutrophils.

(Beta Chemokine, NCI Thesaurus)

People with EoE experience difficult or painful swallowing, vomiting and nutritional problems because an accumulation of immune cells called eosinophils scars the esophagus.

(Eosinophilic esophagitis may be due to missing protein, National Institutes of Health)

It is characterized by the presence of spindle-shaped myofibroblasts, and a chronic inflammatory infiltrate composed of eosinophils, lymphocytes and plasma cells.

(Bladder Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes small inducible cytokine A24 protein, plays a role in the chemotactic activity of resting T lymphocytes and eosinophils, and neutrophils.

(CCL24 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)