Howell-Jolly body
noun
How·ell-Jol·ly body
| \ ˈhau̇-əl-zhȯ-ˈlē-
, -ˈjäl-ē-
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, -ˈjäl-ē-
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Medical Definition of Howell-Jolly body
: one of the basophilic granules that are probably nuclear fragments, that sometimes occur in red blood cells, and that indicate by their appearance in circulating blood that red cells are leaving the bone marrow while incompletely mature (as in certain anemias)