| malpighian bodies | 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) |
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| mamillary bodies | A pair of nuclei and associated gray matter in the interpeduncular space rostral to the posterior perforated substance in the posterior hypothalamus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Pappenheimer bodies | Phagosomes, containing ferruginous granules, found in red blood cells in diseases such as sideroblastic anaemia, haemolytic anaemia, and sickle cell disease; may contribute to spurious platelet counts by electro-optical counters. (05 Mar 2000) |
| para-aortic bodies | Small masses of chromaffin cells found near the sympathetic ganglia along the abdominal aorta. They serve as chemoreceptors responsive to oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen ion concentration, and help to control respiration. (12 Dec 1998) |
| geniculate bodies | Part of the diencephalon inferior to the caudal end of the dorsal thalamus. Includes the lateral geniculate body which relays visual impulses from the optic tract to the calcarine cortex, and the medial geniculate body which relays auditory impulses from the lateral lemniscus to the auditory cortex. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Verocay bodies | Hyalinised acellular areas composed of reduplicated basement membrane outlined by opposing rows of prarallel nuclei; seen microscopically in neurilemomas. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Paschen bodies | Particles of virus observed in relatively large numbers in squamous cells of the skin (or the cornea of experimental animals) in variola (smallpox) or vaccinia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Virchow-Hassall 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) |
| pericanicular dense bodies | <cell biology> Electron dense membrane bounded cytoplasmic organelles found near the canaliculi in liver cells: lysosomes. (18 Nov 1997) |
| metachromatic bodies | Concentrated deposits consisting primarily of polymetaphosphate and occurring in many bacteria as well as in algae, fungi, and protozoa; m. Body's differ in staining properties from the surrounding protoplasm. See: metachromasia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Guarnieri bodies | Intracytoplasmic acidophilic inclusion body's observed in epithelial cells in variola (smallpox) and vaccinia infections, and which include aggregations of Paschen body's or virus particles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Rushton bodies | Linear or curved hyaline bodies, presumably of haematogenous origin, found within the epithelial lining of odontogenic cysts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Civatte bodies | Eosinophilic hyaline spherical body's seen in or just beneath the epidermis, particularly in lichen planus, formed by necrosis of individual basal cells. Synonym: colloid bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Miyagawa bodies | A term previously used to refer to Chlamydia trachomatis (Miyagawanella lymphogranulomatosis), the elementary body's that develop in the intracytoplasmic microcolonies of lymphogranuloma venereum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pick bodies | A histologic finding in Niemann-Pick disease. Large rounded collections of material (sphingomyelin) are seen within mononuclear cells. (27 Sep 1997) |