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Glass(medicine)
looking glass(dictionary)
Through the Looking-Glass(dictionary)

glass body (medicine) and koklass (iou)


glass body (medicine)


glass body -->
demilune body


A circular body of extreme transparency except for a crescentic punctate substance on one edge which contains haemoglobin. The body is much larger than a red blood cell, but is thought possibly to be a degenerated red blood cell swollen by imbibition; it has been found in malaria and in convalescence from typhoid fever; the transparent portion is called the glass body.


koklass (iou)



koklass noun. Also koklas. Pl. same. M19.
[from var. of Nepali phakras.]
More fully koklass pheasant. A pheasant, Pucrasia macrolopha, which has a long crest and is native to the Himalayan region and China.