white blood corpuscle

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white blood corpuscle - blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense systemleucocyte, leukocyte, WBC, white blood cell, white cell, white corpusclemyelocyte - an immature leukocyte normally found in bone marrowmyeloblast - a precursor of leukocytes that normally occurs only in bone marrowblood cell, blood corpuscle, corpuscle - either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including plateletsfree phagocyte - a phagocyte that circulates in the bloodlymph cell, lymphocyte - an agranulocytic leukocyte that normally makes up a quarter of the white blood cell count but increases in the presence of infectiongranulocyte - a leukocyte that has granules in its cytoplasmmonocyte - a type of granular leukocyte that functions in the ingestion of bacteriabasophil, basophile - a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stainsneutrophil, neutrophile - the chief phagocytic leukocyte; stains with either basic or acid dyeseosinophil, eosinophile - a leukocyte readily stained with eosin