Medical

ballerina skirt cell

A fanciful, little-used term for the microscopic appearance of one of the three types of atypical lymphocytes seen in infectious mononucleosis, in which there are cytoplasmic radiations extending from the nuclear membrane.

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atypical lymphocyte
Downey cell

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