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histoid, a. Phys. and Path.|ˈhɪstɔɪd|
[f. Gr. ἱστός web + -oid.]
Like or of the nature of tissue, esp. connective tissue: spec. said of tumours.
1872Peaslee Ovar. Tumours 25 A variety of histoid tumor.
Add: In later use applied to lepromatous leprosy, esp. in the form which appears during a relapse, and to the rounded, relatively discrete lesions which characterize this form of the disease. (Later examples.)
1963H. W. Wade in Internat. Jrnl. Leprosy XXXI. 129 In the past decade and more, many of the specimens of lepromatous leprosy added..to my biopsy collection have proved to be of an atypical kind which I have come to call ‘histoid’. Ibid., The histoid leproma..has the nature of a simple, organized, spindle-cell (histiocytic) tissue. 1987Ann. Acad. Med. Singapore XVI. 635/2 A repeated biopsy of a nodule confirmed histoid leprosy. |