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centroblasts

centroblasts is the plural of centroblast.

Meaning of centroblast

Noun

centroblast (plural centroblasts)

  1. An activated B cell that is enlarged with multiple eccentric nucleoli and proliferating in the germinal center of a secondary lymphoid follicle, after stimulation by follicular dendritic cell cytokines and helper T cells.
    • Therefore we proposed the term centroblast instead of germinoblast and the term centrocyte instead of germinocyte.1975, K Lennert, “Morphology and classification of malignant lymphomas and so-called reticuloses”, in Malignant Lymphomas of the Nervous System

Questions about centroblasts

What is centroblasts the plural of?
Centroblasts is the plural of centroblast.

Words near centroblasts in the dictionary

  1. centrobaric
  2. centrobarical
  3. centrobin
  4. centroblast
  5. centroblastic
  6. centroblasts
  7. centrocaecal
  8. Centrocaspian
  9. centrocecal
  10. centroceratid
  11. centroceratids

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