| Aschoff bodies | <pathology> Small granulomas composed of macrophages, lymphocytes and multinucleate cells grouped around eosinophilic hyaline material derived from collagen. Characteristic of the myocarditis of rheumatic fever. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| Aschoff cell | A large cell component of rheumatic nodules in the myocardium with a characteristic nucleus and relatively little cytoplasm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Aschoff nodules | <pathology> Small granulomas composed of macrophages, lymphocytes and multinucleate cells grouped around eosinophilic hyaline material derived from collagen. Characteristic of the myocarditis of rheumatic fever. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Aschoff, Karl Ludwig | <person> German pathologist, 1866-1942. See: Aschoff bodies, Aschoff nodules, node of Aschoff and Tawara, Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses, Aschoff cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rokitansky-aschoff sinuses | <radiology> Small outpouchings of gallbladder mucosa that extend through the muscularis layer, may be congenital, associated with adenomyomatosis of gallbladder (12 Dec 1998) |
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| node of Aschoff and Tawara | <cardiology> The location in the heart's conduction system, between the atria and the ventricles, which conducts the normal electrical impulse from the atria to the ventricles. (27 Sep 1997) |