Virchow-Robin space

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of the immunological spaces between the arteries and veins (not capillaries) and pia mater that can be expanded by leukocytes.

Word forms

Virchow-Robin space Virchow-Robin spaces

Etymology

After Rudolf Virchow and Charles-Philippe Robin.

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