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lymphocyte

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for lymphocyte.

Editorial note

Among other things, it culls the naive lymphocyte population weakening your immunity to bugs you haven't met yet.

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Quick take

(cytology, immunology) Any of several types of white blood cell with a spherical nucleus occurring in the lymphatic system, including B cells, T cells and natural killer cells.

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noun

(cytology, immunology) Any of several types of white blood cell with a spherical nucleus occurring in the lymphatic system, including B cells, T cells and natural killer cells.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lymphocyte.

noun

(cytology, immunology) Any of several types of white blood cell with a spherical nucleus occurring in the lymphatic system, including B cells, T cells and natural killer cells.

Example sentences

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Among other things, it culls the naive lymphocyte population weakening your immunity to bugs you haven't met yet.

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That would require lymphocyte testing, and none of those tests have been clinically validated, and never will be.

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If you still have doubts after two years of pathology report after report of lymphocyte infiltration in the brain - you too, may also have lymphocyte infiltration in your own brain.

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It's still a general therapy (it blocks all lymphocyte PD-1 receptors), not a cancer-target one.

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There is a system that is responsible for identifying threats(lymphocyte), some times this messes up and identifies the wrong thing as a threat.

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Type IV (cell-meditated, lymphocyte reaction) hypersensitivity, like poison ivy, is also different.

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Activation of microglia and infiltration by cytotoxic T lymphocytes was most pronounced in the brainstem and cerebellum, and meningeal cytotoxic T lymphocyte infiltration was seen in 34 (79%) patients.

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Besides viruses like HIV and transposable elements which permanently splice themselves in to the host's DNA, antibodies gain specificity through irreversible self-editing of the lymphocyte's genome via a similar (and perhaps, evolutionarily related) mechanism.

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[...] This leads to an induction of both cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL)- and memory T-cell-dependent immune responses that specifically target and destroy the patient's cancer cells that express these neoantigens.

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As part of the Pfizer document releases just a few days ago, a document came out that showed the vaccines do in fact reduce immune system operation due to lymphocyte migration and that Pfizer knew this after the stage 1 trials.

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I researched whether there was a circadian rhythm in replication of either the cancer cells or the immune cells: lymphocyte and other progenitors, and found papers indicating that the cancer cells replicated continuously, but the progenitor cells replicated primarily during the day.

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This is easier than you might think because your body makes antibodies(attack living stuff like bacteria but quasi stuff like viruses) and antitoxins(attacks toxins), when the body sees a foreign substance in the blood, it only takes one lymphocyte is misread it as a threat, and boom all-of-sudden your body fights like the devil to kill/remove/subdue that thing.

Quote examples

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By selecting and rearranging several different coding sequences from three different chromosomes, each lymphocyte develops its own antibody "design", permanently changing its own genome in the process.

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Moreover, Covid's "fingerprint" is recorded in long-term "memory" Lymphocyte T cells.

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A high level pathway you have for pain and turning off the pain would be: Pain stimulates nociceptors => increased substance P => increased cytokines, chemokines, etc => increased T-lymphocyte => increased β-endorphins => inhibit substance P So with LDN less β-endorphins is needed to "turn off the pain" and you now get a shorter pain on / pain off cycle or really a shorter substance P cycle.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use lymphocyte in a sentence?

Among other things, it culls the naive lymphocyte population weakening your immunity to bugs you haven't met yet.

What does lymphocyte mean?

(cytology, immunology) Any of several types of white blood cell with a spherical nucleus occurring in the lymphatic system, including B cells, T cells and natural killer cells.

What part of speech is lymphocyte?

lymphocyte is commonly used as noun.