The process in which a relatively unspecialized hemopoietic precursor cell acquires the specialized features of a leukocyte. A leukocyte is an achromatic cell of the myeloid or lymphoid lineages capable of ameboid movement, found in blood or other tissue. [ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0000738 GOC : add http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16551264 ]
immune cell differentiation
leucocyte differentiation
Term information
- biological_process
- GO:0002521