| Dittrich's plugs | Minute, dirty-grayish, ill-smelling masses of bacteria and fatty acid crystals in the sputum in pulmonary gangrene and fetid bronchitis. Synonym: Traube's plugs. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Traube's plugs | Minute, dirty-grayish, ill-smelling masses of bacteria and fatty acid crystals in the sputum in pulmonary gangrene and fetid bronchitis. Synonym: Traube's plugs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dittrich, Franz | <person> German pathologist, 1815-1859. See: Dittrich's plugs, Dittrich's stenosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dittrich's stenosis | Narrowing of the outflow tract of the right ventricle below the pulmonic valve; may be due to a localised fibrous diaphragm just below the valve or, more commonly, to a long narrow fibromuscular channel. Synonym: Dittrich's stenosis. (05 Mar 2000) |