Medical Definition of Oxyphilic
1. Having an affinity for acid dyes; denoting certain cell or tissue elements. Synonym: oxyphil, oxyphile. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxyphilic
Literary usage of Oxyphilic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Microscopic and Chemical Methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1900)
"THE oxyphilic OR EOSINOPHILIC LEUCOCYTES.—In size and general appearance these
cells resemble the polynuclear neutrophilic leucocytes. ..."
2. Review of Neurology and Psychiatry (1905)
"According to Levi (1) the nerve cell nucleus and nucleolus are chiefly oxyphilic
in character, yet he describes in the nucleolus a few basophilic granules, ..."
3. The Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands by Hubert Richardson (1905)
"The second kind of cell is oxyphilic, having relatively to the principal cells
a large granular protoplasmic body, the granules of which are highly ..."
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