See Also: calcospherite(medicine)

bustian (iou) and calcospherite (medicine)


bustian (iou)



bustian noun.LME-E18.
[Perh. alt. of Old French bustan(n)e kind of fabric made at Valenciennes, after FUSTIAN.]
A cotton fabric of foreign manufacture.

calcospherite (medicine)


calcospherite


A tiny, spheroidal, concentrically laminated body containing accretive deposits of calcium salts; found most frequently in papillary carcinoma of the thyroid and ovary, and in meningioma, probably as the result of degenerative changes in the fibrovascular stroma.

Synonym: psammoma bodies.

Origin: L. Calx, lime, + G. Sphaira, sphere