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-coccal
- a combining form of adjectives corresponding to nouns formed with -coccus:
streptococcal.
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The granules of eosinophile cells are well stained and coccal-shaped, the nucleus is often ring shaped.
The eosinophile cells contain large deeply staining coccal-shaped granules.
The nucleus of the eosinophile cell is ring-shaped or much divided, and the granules are coccal and stain oxyphile.
The polymorphonuclear leucocytes have only a few very minute coccal-shaped oxyphile granules, the nucleus is polymorphous.
The basophile granules of the "mast" cells are coccal-shaped, of various size—often quite powdery.
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