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  • Horizontal cell

    A neuron of the inner nuclear layer of the retina. The axons of these cells run horizontally and connect various parts of the retina.  

  • Holly leaf cell

    A cell found in blood smears of persons with sickle cell anemia.  

  • Gustatory cell

    A neuroepithelial cell or taste cell of a taste bud.  

  • Granule cell

    A small neuron of the cerebrum or the cerebellum that contains granules.  

  • Giant

    An active, multinucleated phagocyte created by several individual macrophages that have merged around a large pathogen or a substance resistant to destruction, such as a splinter or surgical suture. An individual or structure much larger than normal.  

  • Ganglion cell

    Any neuron whose cell body is located within a ganglion.  

  • Flame cell

    A bone marrow cell with a bright red cytoplasm, occasionally found in the marrow of patients with multiple myeloma.  

  • Delta cell

    A cell of the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas that secretes somatostatin.  

  • Cuboid cell

    A cell with height about equal to width and depth.  

  • Clue cell

    A vaginal epithelial cell, thickly coated with coccobacillary organisms; a hallmark of bacterial vaginosis.  

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