- balloon cell
- a type of unusual, swollen, degenerated cell with pale, almost clear, abundant cytoplasm; one variety is seen in the vesicles of herpes zoster and varicella and another is seen in a balloon cell nevus.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
balloon cell
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