Medical Definition of Auer rods

1. Rod-shaped structures of uncertain nature in the cytoplasm of immature myeloid cells, especially myeloblasts, in acute myelocytic leukaemia; may be an abnormal form of lysosomes; they contain peroxidase and acid phosphatase, and stain red by azure-eosin stains. Synonym: Auer rods. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Auer Rods

audits
audit program
audit programme
Audubon
Audubon's caracara
Audubon's warbler
Audubon warbler
aue
Auenbrugger
Auenbrugger's sign
Auer
Auerbach
Auerbach's ganglia
Auerbach's plexus
Auer bodies
Auer rods (current term)
auf
aufgabe
aufgabes
Aufrecht
Aufrecht's sign
aufs
auf wiedersehen
Aug
augean
Augean
Augean stables
Augeas
augend
augends

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