plasmacyte

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

   Synonymsplasma cell

   Broaderlymphocyte

   Narrowerplasmablast

Other forms of plasmacyte

plural

plasmacytes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plasmacyte

What does plasmacyte mean?

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

How many syllables are in plasmacyte?

plasmacyte has 3 syllables: pla-sma-cyte. The stress falls on "pla".

What is another word for plasmacyte?

Close synonyms include plasma cell. 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 plasmacyte a common word?

plasmacyte 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.