Howell-Jolly bodies

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Howell-Jolly bodies

[hou′əl jol′ē]

Etymology: William H. Howell, American physiologist, 1860-1945; Justin M.J. Jolly, French histologist, 1870-1953

spheric and granular inclusions in the erythrocytes observed on microscopic examination of stained blood smears. They are most commonly seen in people who have hemolytic or pernicious anemia, leukemia, thalassemia, or congenital absence of the spleen and in those who have had a splenectomy.

Howell-Jolly bodies

small, round or oval bodies, probably nuclear remnants, seen in erythrocytes when stains are added to fresh blood and found in various anemias and after splenectomy or reduced splenic function.

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