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HISTIOCYTE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A macrophage that is found in connective tissue
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("histiocyte" is a kind of...):
macrophage (a large phagocyte; some are fixed and other circulate in the blood stream)
Holonyms ("histiocyte" is a part of...):
connective tissue (tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells; supports organs and fills spaces between them and forms tendons and ligaments)
Context examples:
It is characterized by the presence of histiocytes, spindle shaped fibrocytic cells, scattered lymphocytes, and pericytoma-like vessels in a monomorphic storiform pattern.
(Deep Benign Fibrous Histiocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A neoplasm that originates from histiocytes and accessory cells and affects the central nervous system.
(Central Nervous System Histiocytic and Dendritic Cell Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the presence of spindle cells in a storiform pattern and histiocytes with abundant cytoplasm.
(Cutaneous Unclassified Pleomorphic Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A benign dermal neoplasm comprising of round cells, resembling histiocytes.
(Benign Histiocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A tumor composed, wholly or in part, of cells with the morphologic characteristics of histiocytes and with various fibroblastic components.
(Benign Fibrous Histiocytoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A benign mesenchymal neoplasm composed of fibrohistiocytic cells, spindle fibrocytic cells, and histiocytes, in a storiform pattern.
(Benign Fibrohistiocytic Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
Malignant lymphoma characterized by the presence of a mixed population of cells, with the smaller cells resembling lymphocytes and the larger ones histiocytes.
(Mixed Cell Lymphoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The tumor is composed of fibrohistiocytic cells, spindle fibrous cells, and histiocytes in a storiform pattern.
(Cutaneous Fibrohistiocytic Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the presence of lipid-laden, foamy histiocytes and Touton-type giant cells in the dermis.
(Juvenile Xanthogranuloma, NCI Thesaurus)
Type of chronic prostatic inflammation, characterized microscopically by a dominant component of granuluomas or cell types characteristic of granulomas, that is histiocytes/macrophages.
(Infectious Granulomatous Prostatitis of Mouse, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
