Auer rod
English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- see Auer, rod
Noun
Auer rod (plural Auer rods)
- (medicine) clumps of azurophilic granular material that typically form elongated needles seen in the cytoplasm of myeloid leukemic blast cells.
Synonyms
- Auer body