| Hassall | Arthur, British physician, 1817-1894. See: Hassall's bodies, Hassall's concentric corpuscle, Hassall-Henle bodies, Virchow-Hassall bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Hassall's bodies | Small spherical bodies of keratinised and usually squamous epithelial cells arranged in a concentric pattern around clusters of degenerating lymphocytes, eosinophils, and macrophages; found in the medulla of the lobules of the thymus. Synonym: Hassall's bodies, Hassall's concentric corpuscle, Virchow-Hassall bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hassall's concentric corpuscle | Small spherical bodies of keratinised and usually squamous epithelial cells arranged in a concentric pattern around clusters of degenerating lymphocytes, eosinophils, and macrophages; found in the medulla of the lobules of the thymus. Synonym: Hassall's bodies, Hassall's concentric corpuscle, Virchow-Hassall bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hassall-Henle bodies | Hyaline body's on the posterior surface of Descemet's membrane at the periphery of the cornea. Synonym: Henle's warts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hasselbalch | Karl, Danish biochemist and physician, 1874-1962. See: Henderson-Hasselbalch equation. (05 Mar 2000) |