English Explanatory Dictionary

Auer rod

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. clumps of azurophilic granular material that typically form elongated needles seen in the cytoplasm of myeloid leukemic blast cells.

Word forms

Auer rod Auer rods

Etymology

First described in 1905 by a Canadian physician, Thomas McCrae, then at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, one year before John Auer (1875-1948), the US physiologist after whom they are named.

Synonyms

Auer body
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