Editing Rudolf Virchow (section)

==Honours and legacy==
* In June 1859, Virchow was elected to Berlin Chamber of Representatives.<ref name=boak21/>
* In 1860, he was elected official Member of the Königliche Wissenschaftliche Deputation für das Medizinalwesen (Royal Scientific Board for Medical Affairs).<ref name=berlinmuseum/>
* In 1861, he was elected foreign member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]].
* In 1862, he was elected as an international Member of the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Rudolf Virchow |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=virchow&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |website=American Philosophical Society Member History Database |access-date=18 February 2021}}</ref>
* In March 1862, he was elected to the [[Prussian House of Representatives]].<ref name=berlinmuseum/>
* In 1873, he was elected to the [[Prussian Academy of Sciences]]. He declined to be ennobled as "von Virchow," he was nonetheless designated Geheimrat ("privy councillor") in 1894.<ref name=whonmaedit/>
* In 1880, he was elected member of the [[Reichstag (German Empire)|Reichstag of the German Empire]].
* In 1881, Rudolf-Virchow-Foundation was established on the occasion of his 60th birthday.<ref name=Buikstra/>
* In 1892, he was appointed Rector of the Berlin University.
* In 1892, he was awarded the British [[Royal Society]]'s [[Copley Medal]].
* The [[Rudolf Virchow Center]], a biomedical research center in the University of Würzburg was established in January 2002.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Rudolf Virchow Center|url=http://www.rudolf-virchow-zentrum.de/en/rudolf-virchow-center.html|publisher=The Rudolf Virchow Center|access-date=24 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129095854/http://www.rudolf-virchow-zentrum.de/en/rudolf-virchow-center.html|archive-date=29 November 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Rudolf Virchow Award]] is given by the [[Society for Medical Anthropology]] for research achievements in medical anthropology.<ref>{{cite web|title=Call for Submissions: Rudolf Virchow Awards|url=http://www.medanthro.net/call-for-submissions-rudolf-virchow-awards/|publisher=Society for Medical Anthropology|access-date=24 November 2014|date=13 May 2014|archive-date=8 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308093827/http://www.medanthro.net/call-for-submissions-rudolf-virchow-awards/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Rudolf Virchow lecture]], an annual public lecture, is organised by the [[Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum|Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz]], for eminent scientists in the field of palaeolithic archaeology.
* Rudolf Virchow Medical Society is based in New York, and offers Rudolf Virchow Medal.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rudolf Virchow Medal|url=http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling/awards/1962h.8.html|publisher=Oregon State University Libraries' Special Collections & Archives Research Center|access-date=24 November 2014|archive-date=14 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914180721/http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling/awards/1962h.8.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Berlin-Wedding Virchow-Klinikum 06 Herzzentrum.jpg|thumb|235px|right|Hospital – Campus Virchow Klinikum, Cardiology Center]]
* Campus Virchow Klinikum (CVK) is the name of a [[campus]] of [[Charité]] hospital in [[Berlin]].
* The [[Rudolf Virchow Monument]], a muscular limestone statue, was erected in 1910 at Karlplatz in Berlin.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rudolf Virchow monument|url=http://himetop.wikidot.com/rudolf-virchow-monument|work=HimeTop|access-date=28 November 2014|archive-date=5 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205071915/http://himetop.wikidot.com/rudolf-virchow-monument|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus was built in 1915 in Berlin, jointly honouring Virchow and [[Bernhard von Langenbeck]]. Originally a medical centre, the building is now used as conference centre of the German Surgical Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie) and the Berlin Medical Association (BMG-Berliner Medizinische Gesellschaft).<ref>{{cite web|title=Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus|url=http://www.langenbeck-virchow-haus.de/|language=de|access-date=28 November 2014|archive-date=17 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217123517/http://langenbeck-virchow-haus.de/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* The Rudolf Virchow Study Center is instituted by the [[European University Viadrina]] for compiling of the complete works of Virchow.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rudolf Virchow Study Center: Rudolf Virchow and Transcultural Health Sciences|url=http://www.europa-uni.de/en/forschung/institut/institut_intrag/Forschung/Forschungsstelle_R_V/index.html|publisher=European University Viadrina|access-date=29 November 2014|archive-date=5 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205100254/http://www.europa-uni.de/en/forschung/institut/institut_intrag/Forschung/Forschungsstelle_R_V/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Virchow Hill]] in [[Antarctica]] is named after Rudolf Virchow.<ref>[https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=111780 Virchow Hill.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204020656/https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=111780 |date=4 December 2021 }} SCAR [[Composite Antarctic Gazetteer]]</ref>

===Eponymous medical terms===
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* '''Virchow's angle''', the angle between the nasobasilar line and the nasosubnasal line
* '''Virchow's cell''', a macrophage in [[Hansen's disease]]
* '''Virchow's cell theory''', ''omnis cellula e cellula'' – every living cell comes from another living cell
* '''Virchow's concept of pathology''', comparison of diseases common to humans and animals
* '''Virchow's disease''', [[leontiasis ossea]], now recognized as a symptom rather than a disease
* '''Virchow's gland''', [[Virchow's node]]
* '''Virchow's law''', during [[craniosynostosis]], skull growth is restricted to a plane perpendicular to the affected, prematurely fused suture and is enhanced in a plane parallel to it.
* '''Virchow's line''', a line from the root of the nose to the [[Lambda (anatomy)|lambda]]
* '''Virchow's metamorphosis''', [[lipomatosis]] in the [[heart]] and [[salivary glands]]
* '''Virchow's method of autopsy''', a method of autopsy where each organ is taken out one by one
* '''[[Virchow's node]]''', the presence of metastatic cancer in a lymph node in the supraclavicular fossa (root of the neck left of the midline), also known as [[Troisier's sign]]
* '''Virchow's psammoma''', [[Psammoma body|psammoma bodies]] in [[meningioma]]s
* '''[[Virchow–Robin spaces]]''', enlarged perivascular spaces (EPVS) (often only potential) that surround blood vessels for a short distance as they enter the brain
* '''[[Virchow–Seckel syndrome]]''', a very rare disease also known as "bird-headed dwarfism"
* '''Virchow skull breaker''', a [[chisel]]-like device used to separate the [[calvaria (skull)|calvaria]] from the rest of the [[skull]] to expose the [[brain]] in [[autopsy|autopsies]]
* '''[[Virchow's triad]]''', the classic factors which precipitate venous thrombus formation: endothelial dysfunction or injury, hemodynamic changes, and hypercoagulability
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