transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]
Etymology: t hymus-derived cell
Date: 1970
: any of several lymphocytes (as a helper T cell) that differentiate in the thymus, possess highly specific cell-surface antigen receptors, and include some that control the initiation or suppression of cell-mediated and humoral immunity (as by the regulation of T and B cell maturation and proliferation) and others that lyse antigen-bearing cells — called also T lymphocyte — compare B cell