lymphocyte differentiation

The process in which a relatively unspecialized precursor cell acquires specialized features of a lymphocyte. A lymphocyte is a leukocyte commonly found in the blood and lymph that has the characteristics of a large nucleus, a neutral staining cytoplasm, and prominent heterochromatin. [ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0000542 GOC : go_curators ]

Synonyms:

lymphocyte cell differentiation

lymphocytic blood cell differentiation

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Term information

comment
  • Note that immunologists typically use the word 'development' to refer to cells of B or T cell lineages undergoing the process that GO describes as 'cell differentiation'.
has alternative id
  • GO:0046650
has obo namespace
  • biological_process
has related synonym
  • lymphocyte development
id
  • GO:0030098