Virchow's angle

(fer'khS) [Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and anthropologist, 1821-1902.] An angle formed by the meeting of a line drawn from the middle of the nasofrontal suture to the base of the anterior nasal spine with a line drawn from this last point to the center of the external auditory meatus. V.'s ax'iom, "omnis cellula e cellula," every cell from a cell. V.'s cells or cor'- puscles, (i) the lacunse in o eous ti ue containing the bone-cells, also the bone-cells themselves (2) corneal corpuscles. V.'s crys'tals, hematoid in crystals, V.'s disease', (i) acute congenital encephalitis; (2) leontiasis o ea. V.'s gland, a lymph-node lying behind the clavicular origin of the sternocleidomastoid muscle; its cancerous enlargement constitutes Troisier's* ganglion. V.'s law, there is no special ttmior cell, for the cells of all tumors spring from preexisting cells. V.'s psammo'ma, a collection of small cerebral tumors developing at the expense of the pia mater or of the pial ve els called also an gio lithic sarcoma.