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1879 Rep. 49th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 417 The ghost cells recently described at the meeting of the British Medical Association in Cork, are also to be demonstrated by this method in blood a month sealed.

1890 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 57 499 The parenchymatous tissue of the endosperm portions..is completely disintegrated, the cell-walls either entirely disappearing or remaining in a much swollen and altered form as mere ‘ghosts’.

1902 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 6 267 Whether this increase of permeability persists when the corpuscles have been reduced to ghosts by the escape of hæmoglobin I am unable to say.

1951 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 61 753 The ghosts have a host range specificity similar to that of the virus from which they were derived. [Note] The word ‘ghost’ has been used because of its obvious relationship to the red cell ghost produced in a somewhat similar manner. It consists of the deflated head and the tail.

1973 New Phytologist 72 801 The protoplasmic contents are released in to the surrounding medium leaving the empty ghost cells.

2015 B. J. Bain Blood Cells (ed. 5) vii. 279 A single stained fetal cell is seen against a background of ghosts of maternal cells.