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leukocyte

leukocyte

English

Alternative forms

leucocyte

Noun

leukocyte ‎(plural leukocytes)

(hematology, cytology, immunology) A white blood cell.

Derived terms

leukocytic
leukocytoid

Translations

a white blood cell

Chinese:
Mandarin: 白血球 (zh) ‎(báixuèqiú), 白細胞 (zh), 白细胞 (zh) ‎(báixìbāo)
Czech: leukocyt (cs) m
Dutch: leukocyt (nl) m, witte bloedcel f, m
Esperanto: leŭkocito
Finnish: valkosolu (fi), leukosyytti (fi)
French: leucocyte (fr) m
German: Leukozyt (de) m, weißes Blutkörperchen n
Greek: λευκό αιμοσφαίριο (el) n ‎(lefkó aimosfaírio)
Gujarati: શ્વેતકણ ‎(śvetkaṇ)
Hebrew: תא דם לבן (he), לויקוציט
Hindi: श्वेताणु m ‎(śvetāṇu)
Hungarian: leukocita

Indonesian: leukosit (id), sel darah putih (id)
Irish: leocaicít f, fuilchill bhán f
Italian: leucocita (it) m
Japanese: 白血球 ‎(はっけっきゅう, hakkekkyū)
Korean: 백혈구 (ko) ‎(baekhyeolgu) (白血球 (ko))
Maori: pūtau toto mā
Polish: leukocyt (pl) m, krwinka biała f
Portuguese: leucócito (pt) m
Russian: лейкоци́т (ru) m ‎(lejkocít)
Spanish: leucocito (es) m
Swedish: leukocyt (sv), vit blodkropp (sv)
Tagalog: puting sihay-dugo
Turkish: akyuvar (tr), lökosit (tr)
Vietnamese: bạch huyết cầu (白血球)