- Aschoff cell
- 1. Anichkov c. s 2. ometimes restricted to the larger, multinucleate giant cell type of Anichkov cell.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Aschoff cell
Look at other dictionaries:
Aschoff body — Aschoff bodies or Aschoff nodules are painless nodules present in rheumatic fever. AppearanceIt is an area of focal interstitial myocardial inflammation. Fully developed Aschoff bodies consist of fibrinoid change in connective tissue, lymphocytes … Wikipedia
Aschoff bodies (nodules) cell node — Asch·off bodies (nodules), cell, node (ahshґof) [Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff, German pathologist, 1866–1942] see under body and cell, and see nodus atrioventricularis … Medical dictionary
Cell — The basic structural and functional unit in people and all living things. Each cell is a small container of chemicals and water wrapped in a membrane. Each cell in the human body there are 100 trillion cells in each of us contains the entire… … Medical dictionary
Aschoff — Karl Ludwig, German pathologist, 1866–1942. See A. bodies, under body, A. nodules, under nodule, node of A. and Tawara, Rokitansky A. sinuses, under sinus, A. cell … Medical dictionary
Giant cell — Multinucleated giant cells due to an infection. H E stain. A giant cell is a mass formed by the union of several distinct cells (usually macrophages).[1] It can arise in response to an infection or foreign body. Types include: foreign body giant… … Wikipedia
Anitschkow cell — In pathology, Anitschkow (or Anichkov [eMedicine|med|3435|Rheumatic fever] ) cells are cells associated with, and pathognomonic for, rheumatic heart disease.cite book |author=Cotran, Ramzi S.; Kumar, Vinay; Fausto, Nelson; Robbins, Stanley L.;… … Wikipedia
Anichkov (Anitschkow) cell — a plump modified macrophage found in the Aschoff bodies, inflammatory lesions of the heart characteristic of rheumatic fever; they contain round to ovoid nuclei with a central, slender ribbon of chromatin. Called also Anichkov myocyte, cardiac… … 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
Rheumatic fever — Classification and external resources Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria, Pappenheim s stain ICD 10 I … Wikipedia
Nikolai Nikolaevich Anichkov — Infobox Scientist box width = name = Nikolai Nikolaevich Anichkov image width = caption = birth date = 1885 birth place = death date = 7 December 1964 death place = residence = Russia citizenship = Russian nationality = ethnicity = fields =… … Wikipedia
