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Lymphocyte vs Lymphokine - What's the difference?

lymphocyte | lymphokine |

As nouns the difference between lymphocyte and lymphokine

is that lymphocyte is (cytology|immunology) a type of white blood cell or leukocyte that is divided into two principal groups and a null group; b-lymphocytes, which produce antibodies in the humoral immune response, t-lymphocytes, which participate in the cell-mediated immune response and the null group, which contains natural killer cells, cytotoxic cells that participate in the innate immune response while lymphokine is (biochemistry) any of a group of cytokines produced by lymphocytes.

lymphocyte

Noun

(en noun)
  • (cytology, immunology) A type of white blood cell or leukocyte that is divided into two principal groups and a null group; B-lymphocytes, which produce antibodies in the humoral immune response, T-lymphocytes, which participate in the cell-mediated immune response and the null group, which contains natural killer cells, cytotoxic cells that participate in the innate immune response.
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    Derived terms

    * lymphocytic

    lymphokine

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia lymphokine) (en noun)
  • (biochemistry) Any of a group of cytokines produced by lymphocytes