histiocyten.

1915 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 30 Jan. 195/1 Little nodules about a millimetre in diameter may be found, consisting of phagocytic cells, probably reticulo-endothelial cells (histiocytes).

1924 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 34 583 These resting wandering cells or histiocytes in all their modifications in the different organs and tissues..are the most active elements in the various inflammatory processes and in particular in tuberculosis.

1961 Lancet 2 Sept. 523/2 The dark red spleen..was unremarkable microscopically except for an occasional large histiocyte in the red pulp with finely vacuolated cytoplasm.

2001 Ottawa Sun (Nexis) 2 June 44 The inappropriate presence of large numbers of histiocytes in organs causes a spectrum of diseases called as a group, histiocytosis X.

1928 A. A. Maximow in E. V. Cowdry Special Cytol. I. xiv. 449 In tissue cultures..it is easy to observe the splitting off of free lymphocytoid and histiocytoid cell from the cellular reticulum.

1973 Cancer 31 793/2 It is our purpose here to summarize our experience with metastatic carcinoma of the breast in the eyelid, giving special attention to the histiocytoid variant.

2007 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 15 Feb. 3 The tumour..was diagnosed as histiocytoid eccrine sweat gland carcinoma, an extremely rare form of cancer which generates itself from the fluids in the eye.