- Dittrich plugs
- Dit·trich plugs (ditґrik) [Franz Dittrich, German pathologist, 1815–1859] see under plug.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Dittrich plugs
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Dittrich plugs — yellow to gray caseous masses of various sizes, consisting of granular debris, fat globules, fatty acid crystals, and bacteria, frequently found in the sputum in cases of bronchiectasis or putrid bronchitis. Called also Traube p s … Medical dictionary
Dittrich — Franz, German pathologist, 1815–1859. See D. plugs, under plug, D. stenosis … Medical dictionary
Traube plugs — Dittrich p s … Medical dictionary
plug — Any mass filling a hole or closing an orifice. Dittrich plugs minute, dirty grayish, ill smelling masses of bacteria and fatty acid crystals in the sputum in pulmonary gangrene and fetid bronchitis. SYN … Medical dictionary
putrid bronchitis — chronic bronchitis in which the sputum has an offensive smell; see also Dittrich plugs, under plug … Medical dictionary
