English Explanatory Dictionary

Donovan body

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of the rod-shaped oval organisms observed in the cytoplasm of patients with granuloma inguinale (donovanosis).

Word forms

Donovan body Donovan bodies

Etymology

After Irish medical officer Charles Donovan.

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