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reticulosis

reticulosis

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Noun

reticulosis (plural reticuloses)

  1. (pathology) An abnormal increase in reticuloendothelial and related cells
    • 2015 June 18, Hidenori Yokoi et al., “An Inflammatory Pseudotumor Arising from Pterygopalatine Fossa with Invasion to the Maxillary Sinus and Orbital Cavity”, in Case Reports in Otolaryngology, volume 2015, DOI:10.1155/2015/950823:
      In the case of nasal natural killer (NK)/T-cell lymphoma, which frequently occurs in the nasal sinuses, prominent polymorphous proliferation of lymphocytes is present, and that is evident by its former name, polymorphic reticulosis.