'T cell' definitions:
Definition of 'T cell'
(from WordNet)
noun
A small lymphocyte developed in the thymus; it orchestrates the immune system's response to infected or malignant cells [syn: T cell, T lymphocyte]
Definition of 'T cell'
From: GCIDE
- T cell \T" cell`\ (t[=e]"s[e^]l`) [From Thymus, the site of maturation of T-cells.] A type of white blood cell that circulates in the blood and lymph, and provides cell-mediated immunity for the organism, protecting against infecting cells or the body's own malignant cells; also called T lymphocyte. There are several types of T cells. They develop, as do B cells, from progenitor cells in the bone marrow, but are distinguished from B-cells (B-lymphocytes) by their site of differentiation; T-cells mature in the thymus and B-cells in the bone marrow (in birds in the Bursa of Fabricius). They also have different antigen receptors from those of B-cells. T-cells differentiate into cells that can directly kill infecting cells (cell-mediated immunity, cytotoxity) or activate other cells of the immune system (helper T cells), whereas B-cells differentiate on activation into antibody-secreting plasma cells. Helper T cells interact with B-cells by secreting lymphokines that stimulate the B cell which have detected a foreign antigen to enter the cell cycle and develop, by repeated mitosis, into a clone of cells with identical receptors, and then to secrete antibodies to that specific antigen. [PJC]
Words containing 'T cell'
- Cell,
- Celled,
- Air cell,
- Bronchial cells,
- Bunsen cell,
- Cancer cells,
- Cell cleavage,
- Cell development,
- Cell division,
- Cell theory,
- Cribriform cells,
- Daughter cell,
- Ganglion cell,
- Germ cell,
- Giant cell,
- Growing cell,
- Guard cells,
- Hair cells,
- Lasso cell,
- Liber cells,
- Libriform cells,
- Mother cell,
- Nerve cell,
- Nettling cell,
- Palisade cells,
- Parent cell,
- Pigment cell,
- Polar cell,
- Purkinje's cells,
- Sieve cells,
- Sperm cell,
- Stinging cell,
- Thread cell,
- Wandering cell,
- Water cell,
- White cell,
- Wood cell,
- adipose cell,
- auxiliary cell,
- b cell,
- beta cell,
- blood cell,
- bone cell,
- brain cell,
- cadmium cell,
- cancer cell,
- cd4 cell,
- cd4 t cell,
- cd8 cell,
- cd8 t cell,
- cell death,
- cell doctrine,
- cell formation,
- cell genesis,
- cell membrane,
- cell nucleus,
- cell organ,
- cell organelle,
- cell phone,
- cell wall,
- clark cell,
- collar cell,
- columnar cell,
- cone cell,
- cuboidal cell,
- cytotoxic t cell,
- detention cell,
- dry cell,
- egg cell,
- electric cell,
- electrolytic cell,
- embryonic cell,
- epidermal cell,
- epithelial cell,
- fat cell,
- flagellated cell,
- flame cell,
- formative cell,
- fuel cell,
- galvanic cell,
- glial cell,
- goblet cell,
- golgi cell,
- golgi's cell,
- gustatory cell,
- hair cell,
- helper cell,
- helper t cell,
- holding cell,
- intelligence cell,
- jail cell,
- kerr cell,
- killer cell,
- killer t cell,
- kupffer's cell,
- leclanche cell,
- leydig cell,
- leydig's cell,
- lymph cell,
- mast cell,
- mercury cell,
- muscle cell,
- neoplastic cell,
- neuroglial cell,
- operational cell,
- packed cells,
- photoconductive cell,
- photoelectric cell,
- photovoltaic cell,
- plant cell,
- plasma cell,
- prickle cell,
- primary cell,
- prison cell,
- purkinje cell,
- radical cell,
- reproductive cell,
- rod cell,
- scavenger cell,
- schwann cell,
- secondary cell,
- selenium cell,
- sertoli cell,
- sertoli's cell,
- sex cell,
- sickle cell,
- skin cell,
- sleeper cell,
- solar cell,
- somatic cell,
- squamous cell,
- standard cell,
- stem cell,
- storage cell,
- target cell,
- taste cell,
- terrorist cell,
- unit cell,
- vegetative cell,
- visual cell,
- voltaic cell,
- weston cell,
- wet cell,
- White blood cell,
- cell-free,
- cell-like,
- clark standard cell,
- columnar epithelial cell,
- cuboidal epithelial cell,
- hematopoeitic stem cell,
- oat cell carcinoma,
- one-celled,
- packed cell volume,
- phase of cell division,
- programmed cell death,
- red blood cell,
- sickle cell anemia,
- single-celled,
- small cell carcinoma,
- smooth muscle cell,
- spore mother cell,
- squamous cell carcinoma,
- striated muscle cell,
- Photo-electric cell,
- White cell-blood,
- bone-forming cell,
- crescent-cell anaemia,
- crescent-cell anemia,
- interstitial plasma cell pneumonia,
- sickle-cell anaemia,
- sickle-cell anemia,
- sickle-cell disease,
- somatic cell nuclear transfer,
- somatic cell nuclear transplantation,
- stem-cell research,
- caspase-mediated cell death,
- cell-mediated immune response,
- embryonic stem-cell research,
- interstitial cell-stimulating hormone,
- human t-cell leukemia virus-1