INCLUSION BODY

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Meaning:

Any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases)

Example:

an inclusion in the cytoplasm of the cell

Synonyms:

cellular inclusion; inclusion; inclusion body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("inclusion body" is a kind of...):

body (an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inclusion body"):

plasmid; plasmid DNA (a small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication)

cancer body; Russell's body (an inclusion body found in plasma cells in cases of cancer)