different between neutrophil vs agranulocytosis

English

From German Neutrophil, from neutro- (“neutro-”) + -phil (“-phile”), equivalent to neutro- +? -phil

neutrophil

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

neutrophil (plural neutrophils)

(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).

a- +? granulocyte +? -osis

agranulocytosis (countable and uncountable, plural agranulocytoses)

(medicine) An acute condition involving a severe and dangerous leukopenia, particularly of neutrophils, causing a neutropenia in the circulating blood.

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