Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lymphocyte

1 sense of lymphocyte

Sense 1
lymphocyte, lymph cell -- (an agranulocytic leukocyte that normally makes up a quarter of the white blood cell count but increases in the presence of infection)
       => leukocyte, leucocyte, white blood cell, white cell, white blood corpuscle, white corpuscle, WBC -- (blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system)