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noun Pathology.

a particle that takes a characteristic stain, found in a virus-infected cell.

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Origin of inclusion body

First recorded in 1920–25

Words nearby inclusion body

included, include out, incluse, inclusion, inclusionary, inclusion body, inclusion body disease, inclusion body encephalitis, inclusion cell, inclusion cell disease, inclusion complex

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How to use inclusion body in a sentence

And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.
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In other words, the free speech exhibited by the folks at Charlie Hebdo was not virtuous—until there was a body count.
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It jettisons jiggling ribbons of joy to every part of my body.
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My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.
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“I have to think her body type played a role,” said Rachel Greenblatt, a Lecturer in Jewish Studies at Harvard University.
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The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.
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The sad end of the mission to King M'Bongo has been narrated in the body of this work.
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The evening previous to his death he was walking about the farm, in the full possession of all his faculties of mind and body.
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The generall mayne body of the planters are divided into Officers, Laborers, Farmors.
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(c) Decomposition of exudates anywhere in the body, as in empyema, bronchiectasis, and large tuberculous cavities.
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British Dictionary definitions for inclusion body

inclusion body

noun

pathol any of the small particles found in the nucleus and cytoplasm of cells infected with certain viruses

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Medical definitions for inclusion body

inclusion body

An abnormal structure in a cell nucleus or cytoplasm having characteristic staining properties and associated especially with certain viral infections, such as rabies and smallpox.