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Psammoma(medicine)
psammoma(dictionary)
psammoma bodies(medicine)
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Virchow, Rudolf(medicine)
Virchow's node(medicine)
Virchow's disease(medicine)
Virchow's corpuscles(medicine)

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woe (medicine)


woe


1. Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity. "Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took." (Milton) "[They] weep each Other's woe." (Pope)

2. A curse; a malediction. "Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?" (South)

Woe is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of sorrow. " Woe is me! for I am undone." "O! woe were us alive [i.e, in life]" (Chaucer) "Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!" (Isa. Xlv. 9) Woe worth, Woe be to. See Worth, "Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant gray!" (Sir W. Scott)

Origin: OE. Wo, wa, woo, AS. Wa, interj.; akin to D. Wee, OS. & OHG. We, G. Weh, Icel. Vei, Dan. Vee, Sw. Ve, Goth. Wai; cf. L. Vae, Gr. Cf. Wail] [Formerly written also wo.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Virchow's psammoma (medicine)


Virchow's psammoma -->
psammomatous meningioma
<tumour> A firm cellular neoplasm derived from fibrous tissue of the meninges, choroid plexus, and certain Other structures associated with the brain, characterised by the formation of multiple, discrete, concentrically laminated, calcareous bodies (psammoma bodies); most of these neoplasms are histologically benign, but may lead to severe symptoms as a result of compressing the brain.

Synonym: angiolithic sarcoma, sand tumour, Virchow's psammoma.