Medical Definition of Asteroid body

1. An eosinophilic inclusion resembling a star with delicate radiating lines, occurring in a vacuolated area of cytoplasm of a multinucleated giant cell; especially frequent in sarcoidosis, but occurs also in other granulomas, a structure that is characteristic of sporotrichosis when found in the skin or secondary lesions of this mycosis; in tissue, it surrounds the 3-to 5-um in diameter ovoid yeast of Sporothrix schenkii. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Asteroid Body

asterisked
asterisking
asteriskless
asterisks
asterism
asterismal
asterisms
asterixis
astern
astern of
asternal
asteroid
asteroid belt
asteroid belts
asteroid body (current term)
asteroid hyalosis
asteroidal
asteroidian
asteroidians
asteroidlike
asteroids
asterolepis
asterophyllite
asterophyllites
asteroseismic
asteroseismical
asteroseismological
asteroseismologically
asteroseismologist

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