See Also: cyanobacterium-like bodies(medicine)
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Sandstrom's bodies(medicine)
cytoid bodies(medicine)
dense bodies(medicine)
elementary bodies(medicine)
ferruginous bodies(medicine)
fuchsin bodies(medicine)
geniculate bodies(medicine)

tylosis (iou) and cyanobacterium-like bodies (medicine)


tylosis (iou)



tylosis noun. . L19.
[In sense 1 mod. Latin from Greek tulosis formation of a callus: see TYLO-, -OSIS. In sense 2 prob. false sing. of tyloses pl. of TYLOSE noun1.]
1. Medicine. The development of a callus on the skin; a callosity. Also spec., (a) (more fully tylosis ciliaris) an inflammation of the eyelids with thickening and hardening of their edges; (b) (more fully tylosis linguae) = LEUCOPLAKIA. L19.
2. Botany. = TYLOSE noun1. Now rare. L19.
tylotic adjective (Medicine) of, pertaining to, or affected with tylosis L19.

cyanobacterium-like bodies (medicine)


cyanobacterium-like bodies -->
Cyclospora


A Cryptosporidium-like genus of coccidian parasites reported from millipedes, reptiles, insectivores, and a rodent species. Cyclospora is characterised by acid-fast oocysts with two sporocysts, each with two sporozoites. Cyclospora species is an undescribed but distinct species of Cyclospora that is implicated as the cause of a widespread, prolonged but self-limited human diarrhoea in patients in North, Central, and South America; Caribbean countries; Southeast Asia; and eastern Europe previously reported as caused by cyanobacterium-like bodies.

Synonym: cyanobacterium-like bodies.