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physaliphore Biol.|faɪˈsælɪfɔə(r)| [ad. Ger. physaliphor (Virchow), f. Gr. ϕυσαλλίς a bladder + -ϕόρος bearing: see -phore.] A cell containing vesicles (physalides) which produce daughter-cells.
1860F. Chance tr. R. Virchow's Cellular Path. xviii. 401 (caption) Endogenous new formation; cells containing vesicles (physaliphores). 1876J. S. Bristowe The. & Pract. Med. (1878) 73 They not unfrequently become vacuolated, or hollowed out here and there into globular cavities, which are termed by Virchow ‘physaliphores’, and are regarded by him as reproductive cavities. Hence physaˈliphorous a., that contains vesicles; cf. physaliferous a.
1964D. F. Cappell Muir's Textbk. Path. (ed. 8) xvii. 701/2 The tumour tissue [of a chordoma] consists of lobules of rounded or polyhedral cells arranged in alveoli or cords: some of these cells contain numerous intracytoplasmic vacuoles of mucin, ‘physaliphorous cells’. |