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basophilia

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basophilia [‚bās·ə′fil·ē·ə]
(biology)
An affinity for basic dyes.
(medicine)
An increase in the number of basophils in the circulating blood.
(pathology)
Stippling of the red cells with basic staining granules, representing a degenerative condition as seen in severe anemia, leukemia, malaria, lead poisoning, and other toxic states.


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These changes included minimal degeneration of some proximal convoluted tubules, apoptosis, tubular basophilia, tubular casts, increased mitotic figures, and mononuclear cellular infiltrates.
Histologically, there is a loss of cartilage basophilia, cartilage necrosis, and mixed inflammation that extends from the perichondrium and permeates toward the middle, without cyst formation.
Tubular basophilia was evident to some degree in all groups in male animals only, although the most marked changes were seen with CINN, DCB, and LIM.
 
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