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noun
Elongated, double-pyramidal crystal of eosinophils found in the sputum in bronchial asthma
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: especially, plural
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
History
They were described (though not first discovered) by Jean-Martin Charcot and Charles-Philippe Robin in 1853, then in 1872 by Ernst Viktor von Leyden.
