pacchionian corpuscle
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pacchionian body — |pakē|ōnēən noun or pacchionian corpuscle Usage: sometimes capitalized P Etymology: Antonio Pacchioni died 1726 Italian anatomist + English an : a small whitish process that is one of the enlarged villi of the arachnoid membrane of the brain… … Useful english dictionary
corpuscle — 1. A small mass or body. 2. A blood cell. SYN: corpusculum. [L. corpusculum, dim. of corpus, body] amnionic c. SYN: corpus amylaceum. amylaceous c., amyloid c. SYN: corpus amylaceum. articular corpuscles … Medical dictionary
Pacchioni — Antonio, Italian anatomist, 1665–1726. See pacchionian bodies, under body, pacchionian corpuscles, under corpuscle, pacchionian depressions, under depression, pacchionian glands, under gland, pacchionian granulations, under granulation … Medical dictionary
body — 1. The head, neck, trunk, and extremities. The human b., consisting of head (caput), neck (collum), trunk (truncus), and limbs (membra). 2. The material part of a human, as distinguished from the … Medical dictionary
