Any apoptotic process in a leukocyte, an achromatic cell of the myeloid or lymphoid lineages capable of ameboid movement, found in blood or other tissue. [ GOC:mah http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0000738 GOC:BHF GOC:mtg_apoptosis ]
Term information
Note that a lymphocyte is a cell of the B cell, T cell, or natural killer cell lineage (CL:0000542).
Term relations
- apoptotic process
- in taxon only Vertebrata
- occurs in some leukocyte
- only in taxon some Vertebrata