monocyte

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Monozyt.

Noun

monocyte (plural monocytes)

1. (immunology, cytology) A type of leukocyte (white blood cell) that differentiates into a macrophage.

Hypernyms

• leukocyte
  • agranulocyte

Related terms

• monocytic
• monocytically
• monocytoid

Translations

type of blood leukocyte

• Catalan: monòcit m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 单核细胞 (zh) (dānhéxìbāo)

• Czech: monocyt m
• Dutch: monocyt m
• Finnish: monosyytti (fi)
• French: monocyte (fr) m
• German: Monozyt (de) m
• Hungarian: monocita (hu)
• Italian: monocito (it)
• Latin: monocytus m (Contemporary Latin)
• Portuguese: monócito
• Spanish: monocito
• Swedish: monocyt (sv) c

Further reading

• monocyte on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Blend of mono(nucléaire) +‎ (leuco)cyte

Noun

monocyte m (plural monocytes)

1. (cytology) monocyte

Further reading

• “monocyte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /moˈno.ky.te/, [mɔˈnɔkʏt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /moˈno.t͡ʃi.te/, [moˈnɔːt͡ʃit̪e]

Noun

monocyte m

1. vocative singular of monocytus