Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Has·sall's corpuscle Pronunciation:
'has-&lz- Function:
noun : one of the small bodies of the medulla of the thymus having granularcells at the center surrounded by concentric layers of modified epithelial cells called also
thymic corpuscle Hassall, Arthur Hill (1817–1894), British physicianand chemist. In 1846 Hassall published
The Microscopic Anatomy of the Human Body in Health and Disease in which he described the bodies that now bear his name.
