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- noun medicine The presence of an abnormally large number of
cells
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- noun the state of having abnormally many cells
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Histological analysis of Notch mutant mice revealed a massive dermal hypercellularity, a complete loss of subcutaneous fat, the presence of numerous hyperproliferative epidermoid cysts in the dermis and a thickened and hyperkeratinized epidermis (acanthosis and hyperkeratosis) (
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The underlying tuft exhibits mild segmental mesangial hypercellularity (H&E, original magnification 600). (d) On immunofluorescence, there is intense positivity for IgA in a global mesangial distribution (original magnification
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