epithelioid cell

epithelioid cell
1. a large polyhedral cell of connective tissue origin. 2. a type of highly phagocytic, modified macrophage, resembling an epithelial cell, having a large, pale, vesicular nucleus with abundant, eosinophilic cytoplasm. Epithelioid cells are characteristic of granulomatous inflammation, and sometimes coalesce to form multinucleate giant cells. 3. pinealocyte.

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