Auer rod

== English == === Etymology === First described in 1905 by a Canadian physician, Thomas McCrae, then at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, one year before John Auer (1875-1948), the US physiologist after whom they are named. === Pronunciation === see Auer, rod === Noun === Auer rod (plural Auer rods) (medicine) clumps of azurophilic granular material that typically form elongated needles seen in the cytoplasm of myeloid leukemic blast cells. ==== Synonyms ==== Auer body