| PTR | patellar tendon reflex; patient termination record; patient to return; peripheral total resistance; ... |
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| SGR | Sachs-Georgi reaction; Shwartzman generalized reaction; skin galvanic reflex; submandibular gland re... |
| WFR | Weil-Felix reaction; wheal-and-flare reaction |
| WR | Wassermann reaction; water retention; weakly reactive; weak response; whole response; wiping reactio... |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| multivesicular bodies | Membrane-bound body's, 0.5 to 1.0 um wide, that occur in the cytoplasm of cells and contain a number of small vesicles; hydrolases (especially acid phosphatase) occur in the matrix. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Plimmer's bodies | An obsolete term for cancer bodies (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cowdry's type A inclusion bodies | Droplet-like masses of acidophilic material surrounded by clear halos within nuclei, with margination of chromatin on the nuclear membrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cowdry's type B inclusion bodies | Droplet-like masses of acidophilic material surrounded by clear halos within nuclei, without other nuclear changes during early stages of development of the inclusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| creola bodies | Large compact clusters of ciliated columnar cells found in the sputum of some asthmatic patients. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haematoxylin bodies | Poorly defined, homogeneous basophilic remnants of whole nuclei, an occasional finding in the fixed tissues of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, but observed more frequently in the renal glomeruli and the walls of blood vessels, and probably related to the LE phenomenon; so named because of their affinity for haematoxylin stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Halberstaedter-Prowazek bodies | Distinctive, complex, intracytoplasmic forms found in the conjunctival epithelial cells of persons in the acute phase of trachoma, less frequently in later stages, varying from 1) discrete acidophilic granules (approximately 250 nm in diameter), to 2) irregular clumps of such material embedded in a basophilic matrix, to 3) relatively large basophilic body's (approximately 700 to 1000 nm in diameter), to 4) large basophilic body's that include discrete, tiny, acidophilic granules. Synonym: Halberstaedter-Prowazek bodies, Prowazek-Greeff bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cyanobacterium-like bodies | A Cryptosporidium-like genus of coccidian parasites reported from millipedes, reptiles, insectivores, and a rodent species. Cyclospora is characterised by acid-fast oocysts with two sporocysts, each with two sporozoites. Cyclospora species is an undescribed but distinct species of Cyclospora that is implicated as the cause of a widespread, prolonged but self-limited human diarrhoea in patients in North, Central, and South America; Caribbean countries; Southeast Asia; and eastern Europe previously reported as caused by cyanobacterium-like bodies. Synonym: cyanobacterium-like 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) |
| 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) |
| cytoid bodies | Swollen retinal nerve fibres which look like cells when cut transversely; found in cotton-wool patches. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cytoplasmic inclusion bodies | See: inclusion bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| heinz bodies | Coccoid inclusion bodies resulting from oxidative injury to and precipitation of haemoglobin, seen in the presence of certain abnormal haemoglobins and erythrocytes with enzyme deficiencies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sand bodies | Mineralised body's occurring in the meninges, choroid plexus, and in certain meningiomas; composed usually of a central capillary surrounded by concentric whorls of meningocytes in various stages of hyaline change and mineralization; can also occur in benign and malignant epithelial tumours (often papillary) or with chronic inflammation. Synonym: sand bodies. Synonym: corpora arenacea. Synonym: calcospherite. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sandstrom's bodies | See: parathyroid gland. (05 Mar 2000) |