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lollo rosso (iou) and corpus amylaceum (medicine)


lollo rosso (iou)



lollo rosso noun. L20.
[Italian, from lollo (perh. from the name of the Film actress Gina Lollobrigida (b. 1927)) + rosso red.]
A variety of lettuce having leaves with a ruffled red edge.

corpus amylaceum (medicine)


corpus amylaceum


One of a number of small ovoid or rounded, sometimes laminated, bodies resembling a grain of starch and found in nervous tissue, in the prostate, and in pulmonary alveoli; of little pathological significance, and apparently derived from degenerated cells or proteinaceous secretions.

Synonym: amniotic corpuscle, amylaceous corpuscle, amyloid corpuscle, colloid corpuscle.