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FOLLICULAR
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or constituting a follicle
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
follicle (any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity)
Derivation:
follicle (any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity)
Context examples:
A morphologic variant of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid gland characterized by the presence of papillary or follicular structures, containing malignant follicular cells with abundant granular eosinophilic cytoplasm.
(Oncocytic Variant Thyroid Gland Papillary Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma, follicular lymphoma, and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
(Orbit Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A chromosomal translocation t(2;3)(q13;p25) of this gene and the PPARG gene is associated with a subset of human thyroid follicular carcinomas.
(PAX8 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This rearrangement is associated with both thyroid follicular adenoma and thyroid follicular carcinoma.
(PAX8/PPARG Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
A variant of follicular lymphoma often involving cervical or other peripheral lymph nodes and the Waldeyer ring.
(Pediatric Follicular Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
This category includes the following variants: lymphoepithelioid cell variant (Lennert's lymphoma), follicular variant, and T-zone variant.
(Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma, Not Otherwise Specified, NCI Thesaurus)
Secretion of hormonal and/or other substances into intercellular spaces progressively forms follicular cavities.
(Parathyroid Gland Follicle, NCI Thesaurus)
Cancer that forms in follicular cells in the thyroid and grows in small finger-like shapes.
(Papillary thyroid cancer, NCI Dictionary)
Representative examples include thyroid gland oncocytic follicular carcinoma, oncocytic breast carcinoma, and salivary gland oncocytic carcinoma.
(Oxyphilic Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein is involved in the differentiation of thyroid follicular cells.
(Paired Box Protein Pax-8, NCI Thesaurus)
