Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having an affinity for acid dyes.
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Examples
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The protoplasm is clear, and contains a number of very fine granules, which stain with acid dyes, such as eosin, or with neutral dyes, and are therefore called oxyphil or neutrophil (Fig. 454, P).
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These marrow cells proper, or myelocytes, resemble in appearance lymphoid corpuscles, and like them are ameboid; they generally have a hyaline protoplasm, though some show granules either oxyphil or basophil in reaction.
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The true nucleoli are oxyphil, i.e., they stain with acid dyes.
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Most of the cells are clear, but some, larger in size, contain oxyphil granules.
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The condition is also called Hurthle cell carcinoma or sometimes oxyphil cell carcinoma.
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