Absence of germinal centers in lymph nodes. Germinal centers are the parts of lymph nodes in which B lymphocytes proliferate, differentiate, mutate through somatic hypermutation and class switch during antibody responses. [ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0736-9199 ]
Synonyms: Lymph nodes lack germinal centre Lymph nodes lack germinal center Lymphoid germinal centre defect Absence of lymph node germinal centre Lymphoid germinal center defect
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- has part some (
absent and
characteristic of some lymph node germinal center and
has modifier some abnormal)