| Deetjen's bodies | <haematology> A discoid cell (3m diameter) found in large numbers in blood, important for blood coagulation and for haemostasis by repairing breaches (small breaks) in the walls of blood vessels. Platelet _ granules contain lysosomal enzymes, dense granules contain ADP (a potent platelet aggregating factor) and serotonin (a vasoactive amine). They also release platelet-derived growth factor which presumably contributes to later repair processes by stimulating fibroblast proliferation. Synonym: thrombocytes. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| dense bodies | <cell biology> Areas of electron density associated with the thin filaments in smooth muscle cells. Some are associated with the plasma membrane, others are cytoplasmic. (12 Jan 1998) |
| Dohle bodies | Discrete round or oval body's ranging in diameter from just visible to 2 um, which stain sky blue to gray blue with Romanowsky stains, found in neutrophils of patients with infections, burns, trauma, pregnancy, or cancer. Synonym: Dohle inclusions, leukocyte inclusions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Donovan's bodies | Clusters of blue or black staining, bipolar chromatin condensations in large mononuclear cells in granulation tissue infected with Calymmatobacterium granulomatis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inclusion bodies | <cell biology> Nuclear or cytoplasmic structures with characteristic staining properties, usually found at the site of virus multiplication. Semi crystalline arrays of virions, capsids or other viral components. (13 Nov 1997) |
| inclusion bodies, viral | An area showing altered staining behaviour in the nucleus or cytoplasm of a virus-infected cell. Some inclusion bodies represent "virus factories" in which viral nucleic acid or protein is being synthesised; others are merely artifacts of fixation and staining. One example, negri bodies, are found in the cytoplasm or processes of nerve cells in animals that have died from rabies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| quadrigeminal bodies | See: inferior colliculus, superior colliculus. Synonym: corpora quadrigemina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| interrenal bodies | Distinct paired or unpaired structures in all fishes, which lie in close proximity to the kidney, homologous to the cortical tissue of the mammalian adrenal gland. Synonym: interrenal glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| onion bodies | An obsolete term for epithelial nest. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tigroid bodies | The material consisting of granular endoplasmic reticulum and ribosomes that occurs in nerve cell bodies and dendrites. Synonym: basophil substance, basophilic substance, chromophil substance, Nissl bodies, Nissl granules, substantia basophilia, tigroid bodies, tigroid substance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| elementary bodies | Old term for virions, especially the largest virus particles, visible by light microscopy when stained. Synonym: platelet. (05 Mar 2000) |
| trachoma 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) |
| Trousseau-Lallemand bodies | Old term for small gelatinoid concretions sometimes observed in seminal fluid, old term for Bence Jones cylinders. Synonym: Trousseau-Lallemand bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Jaworski's bodies | Mucous shreds in the gastric contents in hyperchlorhydria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Joest bodies | <pathology> Intranuclear inclusion body's (Cowdry's type B) produced in certain nerve cells by Borna disease virus. (05 Mar 2000) |