English Explanatory Dictionary

Charcot-Leyden crystal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Elongated, double-pyramidal crystal of eosinophils found in the sputum in bronchial asthma

Word forms

Charcot-Leyden crystal Charcot-Leyden crystals

Etymology

They were described (though not first discovered) by Jean-Martin Charcot and Charles-Philippe Robin in 1853, then in 1872 by Ernst Viktor von Leyden.

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