Reed-Sternberg cell
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Reed-Stern·berg cell
(rēd′stûrn′bûrg′)n.
A large, abnormal, binucleated or multinucleated B cell that is characteristic of Hodgkin lymphoma.
[After Dorothy M. Reed (1874-1964), American pathologist, and Carl Sternberg (1872-1935), Austrian pathologist.]
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