plasmocytoidadj.
/ˌplazməˈsʌɪtɔɪd/, U.S. /ˌplæzmoʊˈsaɪˌtɔɪd/ Physiology & Medicine.
= plasmacytoid adj.
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plasmacytic1909
plasmocytic1918
plasma-celled1929
plasmacytoid1929
plasmacellular1940
plasmocellular1957
plasmocytoid1958
plasmoblastic1970
1958 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 24 463/1 (caption) Crystal-like inclusions in a plasmocytoid reticulum cell.
1968 Pathologia et Microbiologia 32 241 (heading) Differential ultracentrifugate which contains RNA virus-like particles from HIPA tumor inducing a plasmocytoid neoplasia in BALB-c mice.
1972 Acta Med. Scand. 192 291/2 The morphological investigations have,..in most of the cases, revealed the presence of an infiltration in the lymphoreticular organs of plasmocytoid cells of varying maturity, probably responsible for the production of the monoclonal immunoglobulin.
1994 Human Pathol. 25 1314/1 They were all high grade lymphomas of B phenotype (two immunoblastic with plasmocytoid differentiation and one immunoblastic with anaplastic large cells).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1958