Word.ws English Dictionary

Cowdry body

Cowdry body noun: an eosinophilic nuclear inclusion composed of nucleic acid and protein, seen in cells infected with Herpes simplex virus, Varicella-zoster virus, and Cytomegalovirus.

Noun

Cowdry body (plural Cowdry bodies)

  1. An eosinophilic nuclear inclusion composed of nucleic acid and protein, seen in cells infected with Herpes simplex virus, Varicella-zoster virus, and Cytomegalovirus.

Forms of Cowdry body

pluralCowdry bodies

Origin of Cowdry body

Named after Edmund Cowdry.

Questions about Cowdry body

What does Cowdry body mean?
Cowdry body means an eosinophilic nuclear inclusion composed of nucleic acid and protein, seen in cells infected with Herpes simplex virus, Varicella-zoster virus, and Cytomegalovirus.
What part of speech is Cowdry body?
Cowdry body is a noun.
What is the plural of Cowdry body?
The plural of Cowdry body is Cowdry bodies.

Words near Cowdry body in the dictionary

  1. cowdom
  2. Cowdrey
  3. Cowdreys
  4. cowdriosis
  5. Cowdry bodies
  6. Cowdry body
  7. cowdung
  8. Cowe
  9. cowed
  10. cowedly
  11. cowedness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Cowdry body (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Cowdry body.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cowdry_body. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.