eosinophiladj.n.
/iːəʊˈsɪnəfɪl/ Medicine.
A. adj.
Having an affinity for eosin; staining readily with eosin.
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1886 H. M. Biggs tr. F. Hueppe Methods Bacteriol. Investig. ii. 69 The a or eosinophile granule..can be stained in all the acid aniline-dyes.
1907 Practitioner Sept. 455 The Eosinophil Cells.
1910 H. W. Armit tr. P. Ehrlich & A. Lazarus Anæmia 97 The Eosinophile Cells..are recognised by a coarse, shotty granulation, which shows considerable avidity for the acid dyes.
1912 J. G. Adami & J. McCrae Text-bk. Pathol. 99 All verminous parasites set up eosinophilia, an increase in the number of eosinophile leukocytes in the circulating blood.
1949 H. W. Florey et al. Antibiotics II. xlv. 409 Eosinophilia developed in 14 out of 16 patients at some time during 120 days of treatment with 3 g. daily of highly purified streptomycin. In 7 patients the eosinophil cells amounted to 10 per cent. or more of the white blood cells.
B. n.
A cell readily stained by eosin.
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1886 H. M. Biggs tr. F. Hueppe Methods Bacteriol. Investig. ii. 68 The elements of the blood..are divided, according to Ehrlich, into—1. Lymphoid elements... 2. Myeloid cells (eosinophile). 3. Undetermined (spleen and..marrow).
1905 Med. Ann. 140 Of 158 non-infected persons 91.1 per cent had under 5 per cent of eosinophiles.
1907 J. G. Adami Inflammation ii. xi. 82 During the height of the infection the eosinophils were found collected in the blood-vessels, actively migrating into the peritoneal cavity.
1912 J. G. Adami & J. McCrae Text-bk. Pathol. 128 The leukocytes that take part [in inflammation] are the polynuclear..cells, the lymphocytes, and the eosinophiles.
Derivatives
eosinoˈphilia n. a condition of the blood marked by the formation and accumulation of an excess of eosinophil cells.
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1900 W. Myers tr. P. Ehrlich & A. Lazarus Histol. Blood 149 By eosinophilia we understand an increase only of the polynuclear eosinophil cells in the blood. Confusion of this form of leucocytosis with leukæmia is quite impossible.
1905 Med. Ann. 140 The eosinophilia may persist some time after the disappearance of ova.
1910 H. W. Armit tr. P. Ehrlich & A. Lazarus Anæmia iii. 167 The Post-infective Form of Eosinophilia... There may even be a distinct eosinophilic leucocytosis.
eosinoˈphilic adj. = A.; also, pertaining to eosinophilia n.
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1900 W. A. N. Dorland Amer. Illustr. Med. Dict. 234/2 Eosinophil, eosinophilic, eosinophilous.
1907 Practitioner Sept. 246 The distribution of the eosinophilic leucocytes in a fatal case of Hodgkin's disease.
1958 Immunology 1 ii. 116 A homogeneous eosinophilic cytoplasm interspersed with areas of necrosis.
eosiˈnophilous adj. = eosinophilic adj.
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1892 G. M. Gould Pocket Med. Dict. 105 Eosinophilous.
1899 J. R. Green Soluble Ferm. xxii. 382 An eosinophilous substance diffused out of the nucleus into the cytoplasmic zone.
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