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Reed-Sternberg cell

Reed-Stern·berg cell [ rd stúrn burg sèl ] (plural Reed-Stern·berg cells)


noun 
Definition:
 
cell indicating Hodgkin's disease: a giant cell with characteristic paired nuclei that distinguishes Hodgkin's disease from the similar non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

[Late 20th century. After Dorothy M. Reed (1874-1964), U.S. pathologist, and Karl von Sternberg (1872-1935), Austrian pathologist]
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