Lymphocyte at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Lymphocyte? A type of white blood cell accounting for 20-25% of the white cells in humans. They are mostly non-phagocytic and actively mobile and are continuously made in the bone marrow. They are the immediate precursors of all antibody-forming cells.

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