plasma cell

1. 1.

   a cell that develops from a B lymphocyte in reaction to a specific antigen; found in bone marrow and sometimes in the blood

   Synonymsplasmacyte

   Broaderlymphocyte

   Narrowerplasmablast

Questions about plasma cell

What does plasma cell mean?

plasma cell means "a cell that develops from a B lymphocyte in reaction to a specific antigen; found in bone marrow and sometimes in the blood".

What is another word for plasma cell?

Close synonyms include plasmacyte. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plasma cell a common word?

plasma cell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.