-zhȯˈlē-, -ˈjälē- noun
Usage: usually capitalized H&J
Etymology: after William H. Howell died 1945 American physiologist and Justin M. J. Jolly died 1953 French physician
: one of the basophilic granules that are probably nuclear fragments, that sometimes occur in red blood cells, and that indicate by their appearance in circulating blood that red cells are leaving the marrow while incompletely mature (as in certain anemias)