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Neutrophil vs Antineutrophil - What's the difference?

neutrophil | antineutrophil |

As adjectives the difference between neutrophil and antineutrophil

is that neutrophil is (biology|medicine) of a cell: being more easily or more fully stained by neutral dyes than by acidic or alkaline (basic) ones while antineutrophil is (biology) that has staining characteristics that are opposite of neutrophils.

As a noun neutrophil

is (biology|medicine) such a cell, especially a white blood cell.

neutrophil

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (biology, medicine) Of a cell: being more easily or more fully stained by neutral dyes than by acidic or alkaline (basic) ones.

    • Noun

    (neutrophil granulocyte) (en noun)
  • (biology, medicine) Such a cell, especially a white blood cell.
  • *2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 89:
  • *:One litre of human blood contains about five billion neutrophils (around half of all white blood cells).

    • Synonyms

    *neutrophil granulocyte

    antineutrophil

    English

    Alternative forms

    * anti-neutrophil

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (biology) That has staining characteristics that are opposite of neutrophils