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BASOPHIL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does basophil mean?
• BASOPHIL (noun)
The noun BASOPHIL has 1 sense:
1. a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains
Familiarity information: BASOPHIL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
basophil; basophile
Hypernyms ("basophil" 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)
Context examples
This agent interferes with mediators release from mast cells either by inhibiting calcium ion influx across mast cell/basophil plasma membrane or by inhibiting intracellular calcium ion release within the cells.
(Fexofenadine, NCI Thesaurus)
Neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils are granular leukocytes.
(Granular leukocyte, NCI Dictionary)
Neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils are granulocytes.
(Granulocyte, NCI Dictionary)
Doxylamine competitively inhibits the histamine 1 (H1) receptor, thereby preventing the action of endogenous histamine as well as the subsequent release of pro-inflammatory mediators from basophils and mast cells.
(Doxylamine, NCI Thesaurus)
IL-8 is a chemokine, a chemotactic factor that attracts neutrophils, basophils and T cells to sites of inflammation.
(Cytokine Network Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
An acute myeloid leukemia in which the immature cells differentiate towards basophils.
(Acute Basophilic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
In humans the granulocytes are also classified as polymorphonuclear leucocytes and are subdivided according to the staining properties of the granules into eosinophils, basophils and neutrophils.
(Granulocyte, NCI Thesaurus)
A decrease in the number of mature granulocytes (neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils) in the peripheral blood.
(Granulocytopenia, NCI Thesaurus)
The presence of cytoplasmic granules in neutrophils leads to their classification as granulocytes, along with basophils and eosinophils.
(Neutrophil Surface Molecule Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
A phospholipid derivative formed by platelets, basophils, neutrophils, monocytes, and macrophages.
(Platelet Activating Factor, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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