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Aschoff body

American  
[ah-shawf] / ˈɑ ʃɔf /
Or Aschoff nodule

noun

Pathology.

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

Etymology

Origin of Aschoff body

Named after Ludwig Aschoff (died 1942), German pathologist

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