PSEUDO-ACTINOMYCOSIS

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1894 · p. 15

(Lat.), n. f. Sud(psusd)-o(o3)- aakt(a8kt)-ian-o(os)-mi(mu(1)-kos'ias. Gen., -os'eos (-is). Of F. A. Loesch, a variety of tuberculosis in which bodies resembling the grains found in actinomycosis are present in the sputa. The grains are crystalline concretions of a substance allied to leuciue. ["N. Y. Med. Jour.," Aug. 31, 1889, p. 242 (a, 34).] [s. 346]