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Medical Definition of Paget's cells
1. Relatively large, neoplastic epithelial cell's (carcinoma cell's) with hyperchromatic nuclei and palely staining cytoplasm; in Paget's disease of the breast, such cell's occur in neoplastic epithelium in the ducts and in the epidermis of the nipple, areola, and adjacent skin. (05 Mar 2000)