Charcot-Leyden crystal

Meaning

Noun

Elongated, double-pyramidal crystal of eosinophils found in the sputum in bronchial asthma

Origin

They were described (though not first discovered) by Jean-Martin Charcot and Charles-Philippe Robin in 1853, then in 1872 by Ernst Viktor von Leyden.

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