| MPHD | multiple pituitary hormone deficiencies |
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| NPA | National Pharmaceutical Association; National Pituitary Agency; near point accommodation; Nurse Prac... |
| NPA-NIHHDP | National Pituitary Agency-National Institutes of Health Hormone Distribution Program |
| PA | panic attack; pantothenic acid; paralysis agitans; paranoia; passive aggressive; pathology; patient'... |
| PACAP | pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide |
| pick bodies | A histologic finding in Niemann-Pick disease. Large rounded collections of material (sphingomyelin) are seen within mononuclear cells. (27 Sep 1997) |
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| molluscum bodies | <virology> Intracellular inclusions of poxviruses found in cells of human epidermis, harmless, but contagious, skin lesions molluscum contagiosum). (18 Nov 1997) |
| Pick's bodies | Intracytoplasmic argentophilic inclusion body's seen in neurons in Pick's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colloid 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) |
| Weibel-Palade bodies | Rod-shaped bundles of microtubules seen by electron microscopy in vascular endothelial cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mooser bodies | A term used to refer to the rickettsiae found in the exudate (and in tissue) from the tunica vaginalis in endemic typhus fever (caused by Rickettsia typhi). (05 Mar 2000) |
| compressible cavernous bodies | Submucous venous plexuses found at the level of the pharyngoesophageal junction and anal canal, which assist in reducing or obliterating the lumen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conchoidal bodies | Concentrically laminated calcified body's found in granulomas, particularly in sarcoidosis. Synonym: conchoidal bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wolf-Orton bodies | Intranuclear inclusion body's seen in cells of malignant neoplasms, especially those of glial cell origin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| 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) |
| 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) |