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Common in brain tissue, a sphingolipid in which the terminal hydroxyl group of ceramide has a phosphorylcholine substituent.
MedicineSpherocytosis is an auto-hemolytic anemia characterized by the production of spherocytes or erythrocytes that are sphere-shaped rather than bi-concave disk shaped. Spherocytes are found in all hemolytic anemias to some degree. Hereditary spherocytosis and autoimmune hemolytic anemia are characterized by having only spherocytes.
MedicineSolid that is almost, but not quite, a sphere Its section is an ellipse, and not a great circle.
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