mirror-image cell

mir·ror-·im·age cell

1. a cell the nuclei of which have identical features and are placed in the cytoplasm in similar fashion; 2. a binucleate form of Reed-Sternberg cell often found in Hodgkin disease; the twin nuclei are disposed in relation to an imaginary plane between them like a single nucleus together with its image in a mirror.

mir·ror-im·age cell

(mir'ŏr'im'ăj sel) 1. A cell with nuclei that have identical features that is placed in the cytoplasm in similar fashion. 2. A binucleate form of Reed-Sternberg cell often found in Hodgkin disease; the twin nuclei are disposed in relation to an imaginary plane between them, like a single nucleus together with its image in a mirror.