Medical term:
malacoplakia
malacoplakia
[mal″ah-ko-pla´ke-ah]a circumscribed area of softening on the membrane lining a hollow organ, as the ureter, urethra, or renal pelvis.
malacoplakia vesi´cae a flat yellow growth on the mucosa of the bladder and ureters, resulting from infection.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
mal·a·co·pla·ki·a
, malakoplakia (mal'ă-kō-plā'kē-ă, mal'a-kō-plā'kē-a),Rare lesion in the mucosa of the urinary bladder and other organs, more frequent in women, characterized by numerous mottled yellow and gray soft plaques and nodules that consist of numerous macrophages and calcospherites (Michaelis-Guttmann bodies) that may form around intracellular bacteria, usually Escherichia coli.
[malaco- + G. plax, plate, plaque]
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mal·a·co·pla·ki·a
(mal'ă-kō-plā'kē-ă)Rare lesion most commonly seen in the mucosa of the urinary bladder, characterized by mottled yellow and gray soft nodules that consist of macrophages and calcospherites (Michaelis-Guttmann bodies).
[malaco- + G. plax, plate, plaque]
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malacoplakia
A form of persistent inflammation of the urinary bladder featuring soft, pale, elevated plaques composed of MACROPHAGES and LYMPHOCYTES. The condition most commonly affects middle-aged women.Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
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