fuilchill

Irish

Etymology

From fuil (“blood”) +‎ cill (“cell”).

Noun

fuilchill f (genitive singular fuilchille, nominative plural fuilchealla)

1. (hematology, cytology) blood cell

Declension

Declension of fuilchill (irregular)

bare forms case singular plural nominative fuilchill fuilchealla vocative a fhuilchill a fhuilchealla genitive fuilchille fuilcheall dative fuilchill fuilchealla forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fhuilchill na fuilchealla genitive na fuilchille na bhfuilcheall dative leis an bhfuilchill don fhuilchill leis na fuilchealla

Synonyms

• cill fola

Derived terms

• fuilchill bhán (“white blood cell”)
• fuilchill dhearg (“red blood cell”)

Related terms

• eiritricít (“erythrocyte”)
• leocaicít (“leukocyte”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of fuilchill

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fuilchill	fhuilchill	bhfuilchill

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuilchill”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN