lymphocyte differentiation
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0030098
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. [ GOC:go_curators http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0000542 ]
Synonyms: lymphocyte cell differentiation, lymphocytic blood cell differentiation
Term info
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'.
lymphocyte development
GO:0046650
biological_process
GO:0030098
Term relations
- mononuclear cell differentiation
- lymphocyte activation
- results in acquisition of features of some lymphocyte