How to Use lymphocyte in a Sentence

lymphocyte

noun
Definition of lymphocytenext
  • Dan hangs out with Tess and Bess, from the lymphocyte group.
    — Virginia Savova, STAT, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The white blood cells that fight against infections are called lymphocytes.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • To her horror, Smith was diagnosed a cancer of the lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that fights infection in the body.
    — Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • They can be bound by white blood cells, including lymphocytes, which are the cells of the adaptive immune system.
    — Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Some affect the lymphocytes, while others affect the granulocytes (the two main types of white cells).
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 31 July 2023
  • This process causes your body to produce white blood cells called T-lymphocytes, which will stick around in your body and remember the pathogen as well as how to respond to it.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The virus itself enters a key cell that’s important in defending your body from outside pathogens, and that cell is the lymphocyte.
    — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma are both blood cancers that begin in lymphocytes.
    — Barbara Brody, Health, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Most new particles of the virus are produced in immune-system cells called T-lymphocytes.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • The disease affects the immature forms of white blood cells, called lymphocytes, which identify and destroy foreign proteins in the body.
    — Fox News, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a cancer that develops from cells in the lymphatic system called lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that helps the body fight infections.
    — Aaron Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 12 June 2018
  • Hodgkin's lymphoma is a cancer that develops from cells in the lymphatic system called lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that helps the body fight infections.
    — Aaron Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 30 June 2018
  • Theranos was out of range more often for lymphocytes, which are types of white blood cells; for a measure of hemoglobin; and for certain types of cholesterol.
    — Andrew Pollack, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2016
  • The good guys are your white blood cells, especially the ones called lymphocytes that produce antibodies.
    — USA Today, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Other parts of the immune system include the thymus, spleen, lymph nodes, lymphocytes, white blood cells, and antibodies.
    — Philly.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • For the treatment, researchers take blood from a person with diabetes and separate out the immune system cells (lymphocytes).
    — Serena Gordon, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2017
  • The researchers found that five minutes post-orgasm, the study subjects had an increased level of certain types of lymphocytes (white blood cells that help your immune system fend off illness).
    — Rachel Jacoby Zoldan, SELF, 31 Dec. 2018
  • With non-Hodgkins's lymphoma, the cancer starts with white blood cells called lymphocytes, which are part of the body's immune system, according to the American Cancer Society.
    — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2018
  • After extracting the tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes from a biopsy, his team can multiply the cells and give billions of them back to the patient.
    — Michelle Cortez, Bloomberg.com, 4 June 2018
  • Hodgkin's lymphoma is a type of cancer in which white blood cells called lymphocytes grow out of control, causing swollen lymph nodes and growths throughout the body and affecting the body's immune system, according to the Mayo Clinic.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 11 May 2023
  • These antigens prompt your B-lymphocytes, another type of white blood cell, to churn out antibodies, or proteins that help eliminate pathogens.
    — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a type of immune system cancer that starts in white blood cells called lymphocytes, according to the American Cancer Society.
    — NBC News, 16 Jan. 2020
  • At the same time, their numbers of white blood cells, or lymphocytes, the sentinel cells of the immune system that defend the body against infections, declined markedly--another highly reliable index of stress.
    — Robert Sapolsky, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The study suggests, for instance, that immune cells called lymphocytes are far more common than biologists realized.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The study suggests, for instance, that immune cells called lymphocytes are far more common than biologists realized.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Unmolested females had three times as many circulating lymphocytes as one poor female who was attacked five times during those first two weeks.
    — Robert Sapolsky, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The team also estimated humans have about four times more total lymphocytes in our bodies than previously thought.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Hodgkin lymphoma is rarer and different in that those patients test positive for Reed-Sternberg cells, which are abnormally large lymphocytes.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Researchers also removed immune cells from the malignant mass - tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, or TILs - and found some that targeted four of those defects.
    — Laurie McGinley, ajc, 4 June 2018
  • These cells are also called tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL).
    — Harold Maass, The Week Us, theweek, 18 Apr. 2024

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