Negri Path.
(ˈneɪgriː)
The name of Adelchi Negri (1876–1912), Italian physician, used attrib. (and formerly in the possessive) to designate eosinophil cytoplasmic inclusion bodies (first described by him in 1903) found in the neurons of the brains of human beings and animals infected with rabies, the demonstration of which provides the most certain diagnosis of that disease.
| 1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl., Epitome of Current Med. Lit. 30 Apr. 72/2 (heading) The minute structure of Negri's bodies. 1905 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 2 Sept. 744/1 It is just as possible that the Negri bodies are the result of the infection as that they are the cause of rabies. 1906 Jrnl. R. Microsc. Soc. 626 (heading) Demonstrating Negri's corpuscles. 1952 [see chromatoid a.]. 1970 Sci. Jrnl. Apr. 38/1 Diagnosis of rabies by the recognition of Negri bodies in the brain of an affected animal..requires the animal to be dead. 1974 Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xii. 96/2 Smears and tissue sections should be searched for Negri bodies which stain pink with polychrome stains. |