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Negri body

American  
[ney-gree] / ˈneɪ gri /

noun

  1. any of the microscopic bodies found in the nerve cells of animals affected with rabies.

Etymology

Origin of Negri body

1900–05; after A. Negri (1876–1912), Italian physician

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