Zuckerkandl Anat.
(ˈzʊkəkænd(ə)l)
The name of E. Zuckerkandl (1849–1910), Austrian anatomist, used attrib., in the possessive, and with of to designate the para-aortic bodies. [Described by Zuckerkandl in Verhandl. d. Anat. Ges. (1901) XIX. 95.]
| 1910 Lippincott's New Med. Dict. 1107/2 Zuckerkandl's body or organ. 1927 Jrnl. Anat. LXI. 317 Under the high power of magnification the cells of the Zuckerkandl bodies at full time resemble the larger cells described in the suprarenal medulla. 1930 [see paraganglion]. 1983 Oxf. Textbk. Med. II. xiii. 286/1 The commonest extra⁓adrenal site [of phaeochromocytomas] appears to be the organ of Zuckerkandl, adjacent to the bifurcation of the aorta. |