noun. Any of a group of white blood cells having granules in the cytoplasm.

noun. Any of various blood cells that have granules in their cytoplasm.

noun. a leukocyte that has granules in its cytoplasm

"Something in coffee -- though researchers have yet to determine what exactly that "something" is -- interacts with caffeine, boosting levels of a growth factor called granulocyte colony stimulating factor GCSF that appears to fight off Alzheimer's disease in mice, according to the study that will be published next week in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease."

granulocyte colony-stimulating factor  granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor  granulocytic  

WBC  leucocyte  leukocyte  white blood cell  white blood corpuscle  

alveolar  backlink  chemokine  erythrocyte  extrasolar  

multinuclear leukocyte