Rudolf Virchow - Medical Terms Named After Virchow

Medical Terms Named After Virchow

• Virchow's angle, the angle between the nasobasilar line and the nasosubnasal line
• Virchow's cell, a macrophage in Hansen's disease
• Virchow's cell theory, omnis cellula e cellula – every living cell comes from another living cell
• Virchow's concept of pathology, comparison of diseases common to humans and animals
• Virchow's disease, leontiasis ossea, now recognized as a symptom rather than a disease
• Virchow's gland, Virchow's node
• Virchow's Law, during craniosynostosis, skull growth is restricted to a plane perpendicular to the affected, prematurely fused suture and is enhanced in a plane parallel to it.
• Virchow's line, a line from the root of the nose to the lambda
• Virchow's metamorphosis, lipomatosis in the heart and salivary glands
• Virchow's method of autopsy, a method of autopsy where each organ is taken out one by one
• Virchow's node, the presence of metastatic cancer in a lymph node in the supraclavicular fossa (root of the neck left of the midline), also known as Troisier's sign
• Virchow's psammoma, psammoma bodies in meningiomas
• Virchow-Robin spaces, enlarged perivascular spaces (EPVS) (often only potential) that surround blood vessels for a short distance as they enter the brain
• Virchow-Seckel syndrome, a very rare disease also known as "bird-headed dwarfism"
• Virchow's triad, the classic factors which precipitate venous thrombus formation: endothelial dysfunction or injury, hemodynamic changes and hypercoaguability