dot

dot
A small spot.
- Gunn dots minute, highly glistening, white or yellowish specks usually seen in the posterior part of the fundus; nonpathologic.
- Horner-Trantas dots evanescent white cellular infiltrates occurring in the bulbar form of vernal keratoconjunctivitis.
- Maurer dots finely granular precipitates or irregular cytoplasmic particles that usually occur diffusely in red blood cells infected with the trophozoites of Plasmodium falciparum, occasionally those of P. malariae; rarely observed in P. falciparum blood smears because its trophozoites seldom are seen in peripheral blood. SYN: Maurer clefts.
- Mittendorf d. a small d. visible on the posterior aspect of the lens capsule on ophthalmologic examination that represents a remnant of the primitive hyaloid vascular system.
- Schüffner dots fine, round, uniform red or red-yellow dots (as colored with Romanovsky stains) characteristically observed in erythrocytes infected with Plasmodium vivax and P. ovale, but not ordinarily found in P. malariae and P. falciparum infections. SYN: Schüffner granules.
- Trantas dots pale, grayish red, uneven nodules of gelatinous aspect at the limbal conjunctiva in vernal conjunctivitis.
- Ziemann dots fine dots seen in erythrocytes in malariae malaria. SYN: Ziemann stippling.
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date of transfer; date of travel; Dictionary of Occupational Titles; directly observed therapy

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dot 'dät n a small spot or speck see MAURER'S DOTS, SCHUFFNER'S DOTS

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direct observed therapy: see tuberculosis.

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(dot) a small spot.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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