Aschoff body
or Aschoff nodule
[ ah-shawf ]
nounPathology.
any of the spindleshaped nodules found in heart tissue and associated with the myocarditis of rheumatic fever.
Origin of Aschoff body
1Named after Ludwig Aschoff (died 1942), German pathologist
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