How to Use lymphocyte in a Sentence

lymphocyte

noun
  • The white blood cells that fight against infections are called lymphocytes.
    — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2023
  • This system is based on the number of lymphocytes (white blood cells) in the blood and bone marrow.
    — Doru Paul, Health, 10 Jan. 2025
  • They can be bound by white blood cells, including lymphocytes, which are the cells of the adaptive immune system.
    — Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma are both blood cancers that begin in lymphocytes.
    — Barbara Brody, Health, 9 Nov. 2023
  • They're made up of connective tissue and contain white blood cells (also called lymphocytes).
    — Cristina Mutchler, Health, 5 July 2024
  • Think of lymphocytes as the special ops of immunity.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Flow Space, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Some affect the lymphocytes, while others affect the granulocytes (the two main types of white cells).
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 31 July 2023
  • Most new particles of the virus are produced in immune-system cells called T-lymphocytes.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • Lymphoma is a type of blood cancer originating from lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that is part of the immune system.
    — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 1 July 2024
  • The virus itself enters a key cell that’s important in defending your body from outside pathogens, and that cell is the lymphocyte.
    — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2023
  • To her horror, Smith was diagnosed a cancer of the lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that fights infection in the body.
    — Fox News, 2 May 2018
  • The good guys are your white blood cells, especially the ones called lymphocytes that produce antibodies.
    — USA Today, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Two categories of immune cells already known when Barry entered the field were lymphocytes and macrophages.
    — Marc Lipsitch, STAT, 30 Mar. 2026
  • This process causes your body to produce white blood cells called T-lymphocytes, which will stick around in your body and remember the pathogen as well as how to respond to it.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Other parts of the immune system include the thymus, spleen, lymph nodes, lymphocytes, white blood cells, and antibodies.
    — Philly.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The disease affects the immature forms of white blood cells, called lymphocytes, which identify and destroy foreign proteins in the body.
    — Fox News, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Theranos was out of range more often for lymphocytes, which are types of white blood cells; for a measure of hemoglobin; and for certain types of cholesterol.
    — Andrew Pollack, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2016
  • Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a cancer that develops from cells in the lymphatic system called lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that helps the body fight infections.
    — Aaron Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 12 June 2018
  • Hodgkin's lymphoma is a cancer that develops from cells in the lymphatic system called lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that helps the body fight infections.
    — Aaron Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 30 June 2018
  • For the treatment, researchers take blood from a person with diabetes and separate out the immune system cells (lymphocytes).
    — Serena Gordon, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2017
  • Unmolested females had three times as many circulating lymphocytes as one poor female who was attacked five times during those first two weeks.
    — Robert Sapolsky, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The study suggests, for instance, that immune cells called lymphocytes are far more common than biologists realized.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The study suggests, for instance, that immune cells called lymphocytes are far more common than biologists realized.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The team also estimated humans have about four times more total lymphocytes in our bodies than previously thought.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • And some research has shown that their lymphocytes are particularly good at stopping abnormal cell division.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, STAT, 16 Aug. 2024
  • These antigens prompt your B-lymphocytes, another type of white blood cell, to churn out antibodies, or proteins that help eliminate pathogens.
    — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Hodgkin lymphoma is a type of cancer that originates in white blood cells called lymphocytes, affecting the lymphatic system, which is part of the body’s immune system.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
  • After extracting the tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes from a biopsy, his team can multiply the cells and give billions of them back to the patient.
    — Michelle Cortez, Bloomberg.com, 4 June 2018
  • The mechanism that Tonegawa discovered was a kind of mutation that occurs only in lymphocytes.
    — Jerome Groopman, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Vaccines work by introducing antigens that mimic a pathogen, triggering lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) to produce antibodies.
    — Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2025

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