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white blood cell

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response, or part of the immune system.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, cytology, hematology, immunology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: WBC, white cell, leukocyte, white blood corpuscle

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: blood cell

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noun

Meaning 2

blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: leukocyte, leucocyte, white cell, white blood corpuscle, white corpuscle, WBC

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: blood cell, blood corpuscle, corpuscle, free phagocyte

Narrower terms: myelocyte, myeloblast, lymphocyte, lymph cell, granulocyte, monocyte, basophil, basophile, neutrophil, neutrophile, eosinophil, eosinophile

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

71 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: witbloedselle — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Arabic: كُرَيَّةُ دَمٍ بَيْضَاء (kurayyatu damin bayḍāʔ) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Azerbaijani: leykosit — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Belarusian: лейкацы́т (ljejkacýt) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Bengali: শ্বেত রক্তকণিকা (śet roktoknika) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Bulgarian: бяло кръвно телце (bjalo krǎvno telce) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Catalan: glòbul blanc — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Hakka Chinese: 白血球 (pha̍k-se-pâu) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Chinese Mandarin: 白血球 (báixuěqiú) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Chinese Mandarin: 白細胞 /白细胞 (báixìbāo) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Czech: bílá krvinka — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Danish: hvidt blodlegeme — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Danish: hvid blodcelle — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Danish: leukocyt — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Dhivehi: ލޭގެ ހުދު ސެލް (lēge hudu sel) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Dutch: witte bloedcel — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Dutch: leukocyt — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Esperanto: leŭkocito — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Estonian: valgelible — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Finnish: valkoinen verisolu — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Finnish: valkosolu — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Finnish: leukosyytti — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • French: globule blanc — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • German: weißes Blutkörperchen — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • German: Leukozyt — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Greek: λευκό αιμοσφαίριο (lefkó aimosfaírio) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Gujarati: શ્વેતકણ (śvetkaṇ) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Hebrew: תא דם לבן — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Hebrew: לויקוציט — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Hindi: श्वेताणु (śvetāṇu) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Hindi: श्वेत रक्त कोशिका (śvet rakt kośikā) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Hungarian: fehérvérsejt — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Icelandic: hvítt blóðkorn — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Indonesian: sel darah putih — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Indonesian: leukosit — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Irish: fuilchill bhán — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Irish: leocaicít — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Italian: globulo bianco — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Japanese: 白血球 (hakkekkyū) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Javanese: ꦱꦺꦭ꧀ꦒꦼꦠꦶꦃꦥꦸꦠꦶꦃ (sél getih putih) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Kannada: ಬಿಳಿ ರಕ್ತಕಣ (biḷi raktakaṇa) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Korean: 백혈구 (baekhyeolgu) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Northern Kurdish: xiroka spî f lêkosît — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Malay: sel darah putih — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Māori: pūtau-toto-mā — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Marathi: पांढर्या रक्त पेशी (pāṇḍharyā rakta peśī) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Persian: گویچهٔ سفید (guiče-ye sefid) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Polish: krwinka biała — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Polish: białe ciałko krwi — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Polish: leukocyt — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Portuguese: célula branca — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Portuguese: glóbulo branco — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Portuguese: leucócito — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Punjabi: ਚਿੱਟੀ ਰਕਤ ਕੋਸ਼ਿਕਾ (ciṭṭī rakat kośikā) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Romanian: celulă albă — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Romanian: globulă albă — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Russian: бе́лая кровяна́я кле́тка (bélaja krovjanája klétka) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Russian: лейкоци́т (lejkocít) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Spanish: leucocito — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Spanish: glóbulo blanco — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Swahili: seli nyeupe ya damu — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Swedish: vit blodkropp — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Swedish: leukocyt — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Tagalog: puting sihay-dugo — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Thai: เม็ดเลือดขาว (mét-lʉ̂ʉat-kǎao) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Turkish: akyuvar — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Turkish: lökosit — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Ukrainian: лейкоци́т (lejkocýt) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Ukrainian: білокрі́вець (bilokrívecʹ) — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Vietnamese: bạch cầu — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte
  • Vietnamese: bạch huyết cầu — cytology: a type of blood cell that is involved with an immune response — see also leukocyte