Editing Rudolf Virchow (section)

===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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