schuffner's dot

  • 1dot — A small spot. Gunn dots minute, highly glistening, white or yellowish specks usually seen in the posterior part of the fundus; nonpathologic. Horner Trantas dots evanescent white cellular infiltrates occurring in the bulbar …

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  • 2Schüffner — Wilhelm, German pathologist in Sumatra, 1867–1949. See S. granules, under granule, S. dots, under dot …

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  • 3granule — 1. A grainlike particle; a granulation; a minute discrete mass. 2. A very small pill, usually gelatin or sugar coated, containing a drug to be given in a small dose. 3. A colony of the bacterium or …

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