- Prowazek bodies
- 1. trachoma b's. 2. extremely small inclusion bodies found in the material from smallpox pustules and in cowpox vaccine and regarded by Prowazek as the cause of the disease.
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Prowazek bodies
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Prowazek bodies — Pro·wa·zek bodies (pro vahtґsək) [Stanislas Joseph Matthias von Prowazek, German zoologist, 1875–1915] see under body … Medical dictionary
Halberstaedter-Prowazek bodies — trachoma b s … Medical dictionary
Prowazek-Greeff bodies — Pro·wa·zek Greeff bodies (pro vahtґsək grāfґ) [S.J.M. von Prowazek; Carl Richard Greeff, German ophthalmologist, 1862–1938] trachoma bodies; see under body … Medical dictionary
Prowazek — Stanislas J.M. von, German protozoologist, 1876–1915. See Prowazekia, P. bodies, under body, P. Greeff bodies, under body, Halberstaedter P. bodies, under body … Medical dictionary
Prowazek-Greeff bodies — trachoma b s … Medical dictionary
trachoma bodies — inclusion bodies found in clusters in the cytoplasm of the epithelial cells from the conjunctiva of a trachomatous eye; called also Prowazek, Prowazek Greeff, or Halberstaedter Prowazek b s … Medical dictionary
body — 1. The head, neck, trunk, and extremities. The human b., consisting of head (caput), neck (collum), trunk (truncus), and limbs (membra). 2. The material part of a human, as distinguished from the … Medical dictionary
HALBERSTAEDTER, LUDWIG — (1876–1949), Israel radiologist. Born at Beuthen (Bytom), Silesia, he was appointed head of the department of radiotherapy at the Cancer Institute at the University of Berlin in 1919, becoming professor there in 1929. When the Nazis came to power … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Halberstaedter — Ludwig, German physician, 1876–1949. See H. Prowazek bodies, under body … Medical dictionary
Greeff — Richard, German ophthalmologist, 1862–1938. See Prowazek G. bodies, under body … Medical dictionary
