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Aschoff body

or Aschoff nodule

[ ah-shawf ]

noun

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Aschoff body1

Named after Ludwig Aschoff (died 1942), German pathologist

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