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-coccal

  1. 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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