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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A giant binucleated or multinucleated macrophage that is characteristic of Hodgkin's disease.
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- noun oncology A
giant lymphocyte characteristic ofHodgkin's lymphoma .
Etymologies
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[After Dorothy M. Reed, (1874–1964), American pathologist, and Carl Sternberg, (1872–1935), Austrian pathologist.]
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