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thymic corpuscles (Hassall bodies, Hassall concentric corpuscles, Virchow-Hassall bodies, Hassall's corpuscles)
A small spherical bodies of keratinized, squamous epithelial cells arranged in a concentric pattern around clusters of degenerating lymphocytes, eosinophils & macrophages.
-> found in the medulla of the lobules of the thymus
General
epithelium
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.
Component-of
thymus