See Also: aortic body tumour(medicine)
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aortic body tumour (medicine) and Grasset's law (medicine)


aortic body tumour (medicine)


aortic body tumour -->
chemodectoma
Aortic body, carotid body, chemoreceptor, or glomus jugulare tumour; nonchromaffin paraganglioma; receptoma; a relatively rare, usually benign neoplasm originating in the chemoreceptor tissue of the carotid body, glomus jugulare, and aortic bodies; consisting histologically of rounded or ovoid hyperchromatic cells that tend to be grouped in an alveolus-like pattern within a scant to moderate amount of fibrous stroma and a few large thin-walled vascular channels.

Compare: paraganglioma.

Synonym: aortic body tumour, carotid body tumour, chemoreceptor tumour, glomus jugulare tumour, nonchromaffin paraganglioma.

Origin: chemo-+ G. Dektes, receiver, fr. Dechomai, to receive, + -oma, tumour


Grasset's law (medicine)


Grasset's law -->
Landouzy-Grasset law


In lesions of one hemisphere, the patient's head is turned to the side of the affected muscles if there is spasticity and to that of the cerebral lesion if there is paralysis.

Synonym: Grasset's law.