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Medical terms named after Virchow

• Virchow's angle, the angle between the nasobasilar line and the nasosubnasal line.
• Virchow's cell, a macrophage in Hansen's disease.
• Virchow's cell theory, "omnis cellula e cellula" - every living cell comes from another living cell.
• Virchow's concept of pathology, comparison of diseases common to humans and animals.
• Virchow's disease, leontiasis ossea, now recognized as a symptom rather than a disease.
• Virchow's gland, Virchow's node.
• Virchow's Law, during craniosynostosis, skull growth is restricted to a plane perpendicular to the affected, prematurely fused suture and is enhanced in a plane parallel to it.
• Virchow's line, a line from the root of the nose to the lambda.
• Virchow's metamorphosis, lipomatosis in the heart and salivary glands.
• Virchow's method of autopsy, a method of autopsy where each organ is taken out one by one.
• Virchow's node, the presence of metastatic cancer in a lymph-node in the supraclavicular fossa (root of the neck left of the midline). Also known as Troisier's sign.
• Virchow's psammoma, psammoma bodies in meningiomas.
• Virchow-Robin spaces, enlarged perivascular spaces (EPVS) (often only potential) that surround blood vessels for a short distance as they enter the brain.
• Virchow-Seckel syndrome, a very rare disease also known as "bird-headed dwarfism".
• Virchow's triad, factors contributing toward venous thrombus formation.
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