nuclear inclusion body

nuclear inclusion body definition - medical

nuclear inclusion body

noun
Either of two types of usually acidophilic inclusion bodies: granular or hyaline, as in herpes simplex, and circumscribed, as in poliomyelitis. Also called nucleoid.

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