thymic corpuscle
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corpuscle — 1. A small mass or body. 2. A blood cell. SYN: corpusculum. [L. corpusculum, dim. of corpus, body] amnionic c. SYN: corpus amylaceum. amylaceous c., amyloid c. SYN: corpus amylaceum. articular corpuscles … Medical dictionary
Hassell&’s corpuscle — (= thymic corpuscle) Lackie Spherical or ovoid bodies 20 50 m m in diameter in the medulla of the thymus, composed of flattened concentrically arranged whorls of keratinised or hyaline cells surrounding dead cells in the core … Dictionary of molecular biology
Hassall's corpuscle — Has·sall s corpuscle has əlz n one of the small bodies of the medulla of the thymus having granular cells at the center surrounded by concentric layers of modified epithelial cells called also thymic corpuscle Hassall Arthur Hill (1817 1894)… … 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
Hassall's corpuscles — Micrograph of a thymic corpuscle. H E stain. Gray s subject #27 … Wikipedia
Thymus — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = GraySubject = 274 GrayPage = 1273 Caption = Thymus Caption2 = The thymus of a full term fetus, exposed in situ. Precursor = third branchial pouch System = Artery = derived from internal mammary artery,… … Wikipedia
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
