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Webster 1913 Edition
Leucocyte
Leu′co-cyte
(lū′kō̍-sīt)
, Noun.
[
Leuco-
+ Gr. κύτοσ
a hollow vessel.] (Physiol.)
A colorless corpuscle, as one of the white blood corpuscles, or those found in lymph, marrow of bone, connective tissue, etc.
☞ They all consist of more or less spherical masses of protoplasm, without any surrounding membrane or wall, and are capable of motion.