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fibrinoid

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fibrinoid [′fī·brə‚nȯid]
(biochemistry)
A homogeneous, refractile, oxyphilic substance occurring in degenerating connective tissue, as in term placentas, rheumatoid nodules, and Aschoff bodies, and in pulmonary alveoli in some prolonged pneumonitides.


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Histopathologic findings included a marked lympho-histiocytic fibrinoid necrotizing vasculitis affecting small blood vessels and arterioles in the kidney and liver (Figure) and associated with lymphocytic interstitial nephritis and mild multifocal granulomatous hepatitis.
plexiform lesions or fibrinoid necrosis of vessels were not observed in the obese or morbidly obese subjects (from Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Complications of Obesity-Haque et al) 4.
 
 
 
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