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histiocytoid

histiocytoid adjective: resembling a histiocyte.

Adjective

histiocytoid (comparative more histiocytoid, superlative most histiocytoid)

  1. Resembling a histiocyte.
    • Among the infiltrating inflammatory cells, spindle-shaped, histiocytoid or myoid tumor cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm were found.2015 August 28, Keita Kai et al., “Granulomatous reaction in hepatic inflammatory angiomyolipoma after chemoembolization and spontaneous rupture”, in World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG, volume...

Forms of histiocytoid

comparativemore histiocytoid
superlativemost histiocytoid

Origin of histiocytoid

From histiocyte + -oid = histio- + cyte + -oid.

Questions about histiocytoid

What does histiocytoid mean?
Histiocytoid means resembling a histiocyte.
What part of speech is histiocytoid?
Histiocytoid is an adjective.

Words near histiocytoid in the dictionary

  1. histioblast
  2. histioblasts
  3. histiocyte
  4. histiocytes
  5. histiocytic
  6. histiocytoid
  7. histiocytoma
  8. histiocytomas
  9. histiocytomata
  10. histiocytoses
  11. histiocytosis

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