Aschoff body


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Aschoff body

[′ä‚shȯf ‚bäd·ē]
(medicine)
The lesion of rheumatic fever found around blood vessels in the myocardium.
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A nodular lesion, termed the Aschoff body, may be identifiable microscopically within the myocardium (mainly of the left atrium) or in the pericardium.
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