plasmocyte Histology.
(ˈplæzməʊsaɪt)
[f. plasmo- + -cyte.]
† a. (See quots.) Obs.
| 1897 G. Eisen in Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (Zool.) I. 4 A new corpuscle, which I have termed plasmocyte. Ibid. 13 (heading) Plasmocytes.—I apply this name to a hitherto undescribed element in the blood, first described by me in the blood of Batrachoseps. 1897 Jrnl. R. Microsc. Soc. 271 The plasmocyte may be defined as a corpuscle, generally without a cell-wall, always without a nucleus, consisting of the archosome and three spheres of cytoplasm. It shows power of growth, movement, phagocytosis, &c. 1900 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 2) i. 52 Eisen ('97) asserts that in the blood of a salamander..the attraction-sphere..containing the centrosomes may separate from the remainder of the cell (nucleated red corpuscles) to form an independent form of blood⁓corpuscle or ‘plasmocyte’, which leads an active life in the blood. |
b. var. plasmacyte.