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Aschoff body

or Aschoff nodule

[ah-shawf]

noun Pathology.

any of the spindleshaped nodules found in heart tissue and associated with the myocarditis of rheumatic fever.

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Origin of Aschoff body

named after Ludwig Aschoff (died 1942), German pathologist
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Medicine definitions for aschoff body

Aschoff body

[ăsh′ôf′, ä′shôf′]

n.

A granulomatous inflammation characteristic of acute rheumatic carditis, consisting of fibrinoid changes in connective tissue and lymphocytes.
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