Auer rod
nounEtymology First described in 1905 by a Canadian physician, Thomas McCrae, then at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, one year before John Auer (1875-1948), the US physiologist after whom they are named.
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Medicine, Sciences clumps of azurophilic granular material that typically form elongated needles seen in the cytoplasm of myeloid leukemic blast cells.
- Synonyms
- Auer body