germinal centre
(US germinal center)
noun
The central area of a lymph nodule, containing cells that are larger and paler than those of the periphery, and forming a zone of B lymphocyte proliferation in response to antigenic stimulation; compare slightly earlier germ centre.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Journal of Anatomy and Physiology.
- signature book
- signature campaign
- signature card
- signatured
- signature drive
- signature file
- signature guarantee
- signatureless
- signature song
- signature strike
- signature tune
- signaturist
- sign behavior
- sign behaviour
- sign bit
- signboard
- sign design
- sign digit
- signed-rank test
- signed, sealed, and delivered (or signed and sealed)
- signee
- signer
- signet
- signet ring
- signet ring cell