See Also: Beale's cell(medicine)
Beale(medicine)
quarantine(encyclopedia)
Quarantine(health)
quarantine(dictionary)
quarantine(medicine)
quarantine 1, noun(dictionary)
quarantine 2, verb(dictionary)
quarantine period(medicine)
QUARANTINE, commerce, crim(law)

quarantine 1, noun (oh) and Beale's cell (medicine)


quarantine 1, noun (oh)



[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Italian; Origin: quarantina 'period of forty days', from Old French, from quarante 'forty', from Latin quadraginta]
a period of time when a person or animal is kept apart from others in case they are carrying a disease
in quarantine
::The monkeys were kept in quarantine for 31 days.

Beale's cell (medicine)


Beale's cell


A bipolar ganglion cell of the heart with one spiral and one straight prolongation.