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Pseudoxanthoma cell

pseudoxanthoma cell
(Science: cell biology) Relatively large phagocytic cell’s (macrophages) that contain numerous small lipid vacuoles or haemosiderin (or both), in organizing haemorrhagic or inflammatory lesions.


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