| Ciaccio, Carmelo | <person> Italian pathologist, 1877-1956. See: Ciaccio's stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Ciaccio, Giuseppe | <person> Italian anatomist, 1824-1901. See: Ciaccio's glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Ciaccio's glands | Small, compound, branched, tubular glands located in the middle part of the lid (Wolfring's glands, 1872, or Ciaccio's glands, 1874) and along the superior and inferior fornices of the conjunctival sac (Krause's glands, 1854). These accessory glands are just scattered scraps of lacrimal gland tissue; all of them produce the same kind of tears and debouch on to the conjunctival surface. Henle's and Baumgarten's "glands" are in fact not glands at all, but mere epithelial invaginations. Synonym: glandulae lacrimales accessoriae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ciaccio's stain | <technique> A method for demonstrating complex insoluble intra-cellular lipids using fixation in a formalin-dichromate solution, embedding in paraffin, staining with Sudan III or IV, and examination in aqueous mountant. (05 Mar 2000) |