| Herbst's corpuscles | Tactile corpuscle's, resembling pacinian corpuscle's, but much smaller; found in birds. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| splenic corpuscles | Small nodular masses of lymphoid tissue attached to the sides of the smaller arterial branches. Synonym: folliculi lymphatici lienales, malpighian bodies, malpighian corpuscles, malpighian glands, malpighian nodules, splenic corpuscles, splenic lymph nodules. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Negri corpuscles | Eosinophilic, sharply outlined, pathognomonic inclusion body's (2 to 10 um in diameter) found in the cytoplasm of certain nerve cells containing the virus of rabies, especially in Ammon's horn of the hippocampus. Synonym: Negri corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Norris' corpuscles | Decolorised red blood cells that are invisible or almost invisible in the blood plasma, unless they are appropriately stained. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dust corpuscles | Small refractive particles in the circulating blood, probably lipid material associated with fragmented stroma from red blood cells. Synonym: blood dust, blood motes, dust corpuscles. Origin: haemo-+ G. Konis, dust (05 Mar 2000) |
| terminal nerve corpuscles | Generic term denoting specialised encapsulated nerve endings such as the articular, bulboid, genital, lamellated, and tactile corpuscles, and the tactile meniscus. Synonym: corpuscula nervosa terminalia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Eichhorst's corpuscles | The globular forms sometimes occurring in the poikilocytosis of pernicious anaemia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Toynbee's corpuscles | Connective tissue cells found between the laminae of fibrous tissue in the cornea. Synonym: Toynbee's corpuscles, Virchow's cells, Virchow's corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Troltsch's corpuscles | Minute spaces, resembling corpuscle's, between the radial fibres of the drum membrane of the ear. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Key-Retzius corpuscles | Tactile corpuscle's, resembling pacinian corpuscle's, found in the beak of certain aquatic birds. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lamellated corpuscles | Small oval bodies in the skin of the fingers, in the mesentery, tendons, and elsewhere, formed of concentric layers of connective tissue with a soft core in which the axon of a nerve fibre runs, splitting up into a number of fibrils that terminate in bulbous enlargements; they are sensitive to pressure. Synonym: corpuscula lamellosa, pacinian corpuscles, Vater's corpuscles, Vater-Pacini corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| biopsy, salivary gland | <investigation, procedure, surgery> A procedure which involves the removal of a small specimen of salivary gland tissue for microscopic analysis. Used in the diagnosis of Sjogren's syndrome. Risks include localised bleeding, infection and injury to the facial nerve. (21 Mar 1998) |
| major salivary glands | A category of salivary gland's that includes the three largest gland's of the oral cavity that also secrete most of the saliva: the parotid, submandibular, and sublingual gland's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| minor salivary gland | A small gland which produces saliva. There are numerous minor salivary glands distributed within the mouth and palate. (12 Dec 1998) |
| minor salivary glands | The smaller, largely mucous-secreting, exocrine gland's of the oral cavity, consisting of the labial, buccal, molar, lingual, and palatine gland's. (05 Mar 2000) |