Riedel Med.
(ˈriːdəl)
The name of B. M. K. L. Riedel (1846–1916), German physician, used in the possessive to designate (a) an unusually long lobe of the liver; (b) a rare condition of uncertain status in which the thyroid gland is largely replaced by dense fibrous tissue.
| 1905 Kinnicutt & Potter tr. Sahli's Diagnostic Methods 311 (caption) Riedel's projection of the liver in cholelithiasis. 1932 Practitioners Libr. Med. & Surg. I. vi. 567 Riedel's lobe is an occasional linguiform process of liver substance projecting caudally from the caudal border of the right lobe. If detectable by palpation or percussion it may be mistaken for an enlarged gallbladder; of course the two may coexist. 1978 Jrnl. R. Soc. Med. LXXI. 200 The homogeneous echogenic mass of the lower border of the liver is either a Riedel's lobe, if of the same echogenicity as the liver; or a tumour, if of differing echogenicity. |
| 1917 H. French Index Differential Diagnosis Main Symptoms (ed. 2) 158 Progressive and extreme fibrosis of the organ such as is seen in ligneous thyroiditis, or Riedel's disease. 1966 Wright & Symmers Systemic Path. II. 1111/2 (heading) Riedel's thyroiditis... This disorder, formerly known as Riedel's struma, ‘woody thyroid’, or invasive fibrous thyroiditis, is not unanimously accepted as a distinct disease entity. Up to twenty years ago the term was widely used synonymously with Hashimoto's disease. |