NEUTROPHILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neutrophile mean? 

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

1. the chief phagocytic leukocyte; stains with either basic or acid dyes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUTROPHILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The chief phagocytic leukocyte; stains with either basic or acid dyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

neutrophil; neutrophile

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))

 Context examples 

Morphologically, eosinophilic granuloma is characterised by the presence of Langerhans cells in a characteristic milieu which includes histiocytes, eosinophiles neutrophiles, and small, mature lymphocytes.

(Eosinophilic Granuloma, NCI Thesaurus)