| TWBC | total white blood cells; total white blood count |
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| Verc | vervet (African green monkey) kidney cells |
| VK | vervet (African green monkey) kidney cells |
| VPC | vapor-phase chromatography; ventricular premature complex; ventricular premature contraction; volume... |
| VPRBC | volume of packed red blood cells |
| eukaryotic cells | Cells of the higher organisms, containing a true nucleus bounded by a nuclear membrane. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| tunnel cells | Cell's forming the outer and inner walls of the tunnel in the organ of Corti. Synonym: Corti's pillars, Corti's rods, pillar cells of Corti, tunnel cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tympanic air cells | Numerous groovelike depressions in the walls of the tympanic cavity, communicating with the tubal air cells. Synonym: cellulae tympanicae, tympanic cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tympanic cells | Numerous groovelike depressions in the walls of the tympanic cavity, communicating with the tubal air cells. Synonym: cellulae tympanicae, tympanic cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| type I cells | Highly attentuated squamous cell's that form the gas-permeable epithelium lining the alveoli of the lungs. Synonym: type I cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| type II cells | Cuboidal cell's connected with the squamous pulmonary alveolar cell's and having in their cytoplasm lamellated bodies (cytosomes) that represent the source of the surfactant that coats the alveoli. Synonym: granular pneumonocytes, type II cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| jurkat cells | A cell line derived from human T-cell leukaemia and used to determine the mechanism of differential susceptibility to anti-cancer drugs and radiation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| juxtaglomerular cells | Cell's, located at the vascular pole of the renal corpuscle that secrete renin and form a component of the juxtaglomerular complex; they are modified smooth muscle cell's primarily of the afferent arteriole of the renal glomerulus. Synonym: Goormaghtigh's cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Tzanck cells | Acantholytic epithelial cell's seen in the Tzanck test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| kB-cells | A cell line derived from a human carcinoma of the nasopharynx, used as an assay for antineoplastic agent. (12 Dec 1998) |
| K cells | Lymphocyte-like effector cells which mediate antibody-dependent cell cytotoxicity. They kill antibody-coated target cells which they bind with their fc receptors. (12 Dec 1998) |
| yolk cells | Primitive embryonic cell's lying between the endoderm and mesoderm; they probably give rise to the endothelium of vitelline vessels. (05 Mar 2000) |
| killer cells | Lymphocyte-like effector cells which mediate antibody-dependent cell cytotoxicity. They kill antibody-coated target cells which they bind with their fc receptors. (12 Dec 1998) |
| killer cells, lymphokine-activated | Cytolytic lymphocytes with the unique capacity of killing natural killer (nk)-resistant fresh tumour cells. They are interleukin-2-activated nk cells that have no MHC (major histocompatibility complex) restriction or need for antigen stimulation. Lak cells are used for adoptive immunotherapy in cancer patients. (12 Dec 1998) |
| killer cells, natural | Cells responsible for spontaneous cytotoxicity of a variety of tumour cells without prior immunization. These natural killer cells are found in non-immune humans and experimental animals and are thought by some to be the same as killer cells (killing by antibody-dependent cell cytotoxicity), but they can also kill in the absence of antibody. (12 Dec 1998) |