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INCLUSION BODY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases)
Example:
an inclusion in the cytoplasm of the cell
Synonyms:
cellular inclusion; inclusion; inclusion body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("inclusion body" is a kind of...):
body (an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inclusion body"):
plasmid; plasmid DNA (a small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication)
cancer body; Russell's body (an inclusion body found in plasma cells in cases of cancer)
