white blood cell

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Noun

white blood cell (plural white blood cells)

1. (hematology, cytology, immunology) A type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response, or part of the immune system.

Synonyms

• leukocyte
• white blood corpuscle
• white cell
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Hyponyms

• basophil
• lymphocyte
• eosinophil
• neutrophil
• phagocyte

Translations

cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response

• Afrikaans: witbloedselle
• Arabic: كُرَيَّةُ دَمٍ بَيْضَاء f (kurayyatu damin bayḍāʔ)
• Azerbaijani: leykosit
• Bengali: শ্বেত রক্তকণিকা (śśet roktoknika)
• Catalan: glòbul blanc (ca)
• Chinese:

  Hakka: 白血球 (pha̍k-se-pâu)

  Mandarin: 白血球 (zh) (báixuěqiú), 白細胞／白细胞 (zh) (báixìbāo)

• Czech: bílá krvinka (cs) f
• Danish: hvidt blodlegeme n, hvid blodcelle c, leukocyt c
• Dhivehi: ލޭގެ ހުދު ސެލް c pl (lēge hudu sel)
• Dutch: witte bloedcel f, leukocyt (nl) m
• Esperanto: leŭkocito
• Estonian: valgelible
• Finnish: leukosyytti (fi), valkosolu (fi)
• French: globule blanc (fr) m
• German: weißes Blutkörperchen n, Leukozyt (de)
• Greek: λευκό αιμοσφαίριο (el) n (lefkó aimosfaírio)
• Gujarati: શ્વેતકણ (śvetkaṇ)
• Hebrew: תא דם לבן (he), לויקוציט
• Hindi: श्वेताणु (śvetāṇu), श्वेत रक्त कोशिका f (śvet rakt kośikā)
• Hungarian: fehérvérsejt (hu)
• Icelandic: hvítt blóðkorn (is) n
• Indonesian: sel darah putih (id), leukosit (id)
• Irish: fuilchill bhán f, leocaicít f
• Italian: globulo bianco (it) m
• Japanese: 白血球 (ja) (hakkekkyū)
• Javanese: ꦱꦺꦭ꧀​ꦒꦼꦠꦶꦃ​ꦥꦸꦠꦶꦃ (sél ​getih ​putih)
• Kannada: ಬಿಳಿ ರಕ್ತಕಣ (kn) (biḷi raktakaṇa)
• Korean: 백혈구 (ko) (baekhyeolgu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xiroka spî f lêkosît f

• Malay: sel darah putih (ms)
• Maori: pūtau-toto-mā
• Marathi: पांढर्‍या रक्त पेशी (pāṇḍhar‍yā rakta peśī)
• Persian: گویچهٔ سفید (guiče-ye sefid)
• Polish: krwinka biała (pl), białe ciałko krwi (pl) n, leukocyt (pl) m
• Portuguese: célula branca f, glóbulo branco m, leucócito (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਚਿੱਟੀ ਰਕਤ ਕੋਸ਼ਿਕਾ (ciṭṭī rakat kośikā)
• Romanian: celulă albă, globulă albă (ro)
• Russian: бе́лая кровяна́я кле́тка f (bélaja krovjanája klétka), лейкоци́т (ru) m (lejkocít)
• Spanish: leucocito (es) m, glóbulo blanco (es) m
• Swahili: seli nyeupe ya damu
• Swedish: vit blodkropp (sv) c, leukocyt (sv)
• Tagalog: puting sihay-dugo
• Thai: เม็ดเลือดขาว (th) (mét-lʉ̂ʉat-kǎao)
• Turkish: akyuvar (tr), lökosit (tr)
• Vietnamese: bạch cầu (vi), bạch huyết cầu