Donovan body

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

After Irish medical officer Charles Donovan.

Noun[edit]

Donovan body (plural Donovan bodies)

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