In pathology, a row of elongated nuclei parallel to each other. [Fr. palissade, fr. L. palus, a pale, stake]
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pal·i·sade (pal″ĭ-sādґ) [Fr. palissade, from L. palus stake] the arrangement of cells or cellular structures side by side in rows, like pickets in a fence; it is characteristic of some fungi and bacterial cell smears and of cells seen in tissue sections in certain normal and disease states.Medical dictionary. 2011.