Definitions for eosinophil

eosinophil e·o·sin·o·phil

Spelling: [ee-uh-sin-uh-fil]
IPA: /ˌi əˈsɪn ə fɪl/

Eosinophil is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 465 anagrams from letters in eosinophil (ehiilnoops).

Definitions for eosinophil

noun

  1. Histology. any cell, tissue, organism, or substance that has an affinity for eosin and other acid stains.
  2. Cell Biology. a leukocyte having eosinophilic granules in the cytoplasm and usually a bilobate nucleus.

adjective

  1. eosinophilic.

Origin of eosinophil

First recorded in 1885-90; eosin + -o- + -phil(e)

Examples for eosinophil

In their general appearance, in the size of the cell and the granulation, they completely correspond to the eosinophil cell.

It is particularly easy to observe this point in eosinophil cells.

eosinophil myelocytes are almost constantly present in myelogenous leukæmia and in anæmia pseudolymphatica infantum.

With faint staining, a thin peripheral layer of the eosinophil granule is seen more deeply stained than the interior.

The mast cell granulations are stained pure blue, the eosinophil red, the neutrophil in mixed colour.

The eosinophil cells oscillate at this period about the upper normal limit.

The hæmoglobin and eosinophil granules are red, the nuclei stain in the colour of hæmatoxylin.

The eosinophil cells are completely excluded from this classification.

On the presence of iron in the granules of the eosinophil leucocytes.

The increase of eosinophil cells is not always relative, but may be absolute.

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