Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Reed–Stern·berg cell Pronunciation:
'rEd-'st&rn-b&rg- Function:
noun : a binucleate or multinucleate acidophilic giant cellfound in the tissues in Hodgkin's disease called also
Sternberg cell, Sternberg-Reed cell Reed,
Dorothy (1874–1964), American pathologist. Reed published anarticle on Hodgkin's disease in 1902. In an analysis of the histological picture she described the proliferation of the endothelial and reticular cells and the formation of the giant binucleate ormultinucleate cells. Because these cells had been described by Sternberg independently four years earlier, they are now known as Reed-Sternberg cells.
Sternáberg /'shtern-berk,/ Carl (1872–1935), Austrian pathologist. Sternberg described the giant binucleate or multinucleate cells found in the lymph nodes in Hodgkin's disease in 1898. He was the first todifferentiate Hodgkin's disease and aleukemic leukemia. He also wrote classic descriptions of lymphogranulomatosis (1905) and leukosarcoma (1915).
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