Cell
B-lymphocyte
B lym·pho·cyte
Subclass of:
Antibody-Producing Cells;
Lymphocyte
Definitions related to b-lymphocytes:
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(b cell) White blood cells that come from bone marrow, and produce antibodies to fight off disease.Harvard Dictionary of Health TermsHarvard Medical Publishing, 2011
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(b lymphocyte) A type of immune cell that makes proteins called antibodies, which bind to microorganisms and other foreign substances, and help fight infections. A B lymphocyte is a type of white blood cell.NCI Dictionary of Cancer TermsU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Immunologically important lymphocyte that is not thymus-dependent, is either short-lived and naive or long-lived and of memory phenotype, and resembles the bursa-derived lymphocyte of birds in that it is responsible for the production of immunoglobulins.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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(b lymphocyte) Lymphoid cells concerned with humoral immunity; they are short lived cells resembling bursa derived lymphocytes of birds in their production of immunoglobulin upon appropriate stimulation.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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B cell, One of the two types of lymphocytes (the others being T cells). All lymphocytes begin their development in the bone marrow. B cells are involved in so-called humoral immunity; on encountering a foreign substance (antigen), the B lymphocyte differentiates into a plasma cell, which secretes...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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