PACCHIONIAN BODY


Meaning of PACCHIONIAN BODY in English

|pakē|ōnēən- noun

or pacchionian corpuscle

Usage: sometimes capitalized P

Etymology: Antonio Pacchioni died 1726 Italian anatomist + English -an

: a small whitish process that is one of the enlarged villi of the arachnoid membrane of the brain protruding into the superior sagittal sinus and into depressions in the neighboring bone

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.