adjective

• 1Physiology
  (of a cell or its contents) readily stained by eosin.

  ‘These ducts were lined either by cylindrical eosinophilic cells or by clear mucinous cells.’

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  • ‘The nuclei were surrounded by a rim of deeply eosinophilic cytoplasm.’
  • ‘There was a moderate amount of lightly eosinophilic cytoplasm, and cytoplasmic borders were ill-defined.’
  • ‘Case 49 showed ductal structures mixed with islands of cells with brightly eosinophilic, granular cytoplasm.’
  • ‘The nuclei were large and vesicular, with irregular nuclear contour and prominent eosinophilic nucleoli.’
• 2Medicine
  Relating to or marked by eosinophilia.

  ‘The radiologic differential diagnosis included eosinophilic granuloma, hemangioma, and epidermoid tumor.’

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  • ‘The walls of digestive organs swelled and food became stalled in the stomach; both of these findings are characteristic of human eosinophilic gastrointestinal inflammation.’
  • ‘In our view this provides further evidence that eosinophilic airway inflammation and airway hyperresponsiveness are not causally associated.’
  • ‘Eosinophilic bronchitis, however, differs from asthma in several important ways.’
  • ‘The distribution of these patchy infiltrates can be peripheral, resembling chronic eosinophilic pneumonia.’