1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, 3 Department of Biology, and Evolutionary Ecology Laboratories, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America, 4 Department of Microbiology and Mol...

As lecturers in pathology it is our task to impart a smattering of pathological knowledge to the modern Bristol medical student. In doing so we are forced to utilise the age old descriptive terms of surgical pathology passed down to us from time when Virchow was an SHO! Far from making our task easy, we are often asked to explain in terms more appropriate to the twentieth century what these arc...

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