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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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Word History and Origins
Origin of Aschoff body1
Named after Ludwig Aschoff (died 1942), German pathologist
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