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Named after German pathologist Karl Gottfried Paul Döhle (1855–1928), who identified them in cases of measles in 1892.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Döhle body
Today it means: A light blue-gray, oval, basophilic inclusion occurring in the peripheral cytoplasm of neutrophils, measuring 1-3 µm and thought to be a remnant of the rough endoplasmic reticulum. Full definition →