reticuloendotheliosis Med.
(rɪˌtɪkjʊləʊɛndəʊθiːlɪˈəʊsɪs)
Also with hyphen.
[ad. G. reticuloendotheliose (O. Ewald 1924, in Deutsch. Arch. f. klin. Med. CXLII. 227): see prec. and -osis.]
Hyperplasia of some part of the reticuloendothelial system.
| 1926 Q. Cumulative Index Current Med. Lit. XII. 591/1 Reticulo-endothelial reaction or ‘reticulo-endotheliosis’ (leukemia form?). 1933 Jrnl. Path. & Bacteriol. XXXVII. 327 The other group of cases (in which sinus reticulum is affected) is represented by monocyte leukaemia, and by certain of the cases described as systematic aleukaemic reticuloendotheliosis. 1958 R. W. Raven Cancer II. xxiv. 452 The word reticuloendotheliosis was originally used, by analogy with myelosis and lymphadenosis, to describe a systematized proliferation of ‘reticuloendothelial cells’, of which the monocytes are representatives in the circulating blood. Both leukaemic and aleukaemic forms of reticulo⁓endotheliosis were recognized. 1978 Nature 20 July 269/2 ‘Pool’ sensitisation of T cells from patients with hairy cell leukaemia (leukaemic reticuloendotheliosis) gives rise to CTL [sc. cytotoxic T lymphocytes] that lyse autologous leukaemia cells but not autologous normal lymphocytes. |