GHON TUBERCLE


Meaning of GHON TUBERCLE in English

ˈgän- noun

also ghon focus

Usage: usually capitalized G

Etymology: after Anton Ghon died 1936 Czechoslovakian pathologist

: the primary tubercle occurring in the lung of a child as the initial lesion of tuberculous infection and appearing as a bean-shaped shadow in the roentgenogram

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