CELLULAR INCLUSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cellular inclusion mean? 

• CELLULAR INCLUSION (noun)
  The noun CELLULAR INCLUSION has 1 sense:

1. any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases)

  Familiarity information: CELLULAR INCLUSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELLULAR INCLUSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

cellular inclusion; inclusion; inclusion body

Context example:

an inclusion in the cytoplasm of the cell

Hypernyms ("cellular inclusion" is a kind of...):

body (an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cellular inclusion"):

plasmid; plasmid DNA (a small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication)

cancer body; Russell's body (an inclusion body found in plasma cells in cases of cancer)

 Context examples 

A small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication.

(Plasmid, NCI Thesaurus)