The story
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A chromaffin body; a small group of chromaphil cells in the abdomen, connected with the ganglia of the sympathetic trunk and the ganglia of the celiac, renal, adrenal, aortic and hypogastric plexuses Full definition →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.