The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires the specialized features of a natural killer cell. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0781735149 GOC:add ]
Synonyms: NK cell differentiation
Term information
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'.