For homonymous articles, see Howell and Jolly. This article is a draft concerning biology.

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The bodies of Howell-Jolly are remnants of pyknotic nuclei appearing after splenectomy (the spleen filters this type of red blood cell), in case of intense reticulocytosis and also in megaloblastic anemias.

They owe their name to hematologist and French histologist Justin Jolly (1870-1953) and American physiologist William Henry Howell, who discovered them. change the code

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