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(biology, medicine) Of a cell: being more easily or more fully stained by neutral dyes than by acidic or alkaline (basic) ones.
plural neutrophils
(biology, medicine) Such a cell, especially a particular type of white blood cell. quotations
One litre of human blood contains about five billion neutrophils (around half of all white blood cells).
2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 89