See Also: Hegglin's anomaly(medicine)
May-Hegglin anomaly(medicine)
Hegglin(medicine)
Hegglin's syndrome(medicine)
Uhl anomaly(medicine)
anomaly(dictionary)
Anomaly(health)
anomaly(dictionary)
Anomaly(medicine)
eugnathic anomaly(medicine)

Kairouan (sh) and Hegglin's anomaly (medicine)


Kairouan (sh)




or Al-Qayrawan

City (pop., 1994: 102,600), northeastern Tunisia.

A religious centre of Islam, it was founded in 670 by the Arab General Sidi ?Uqbah and became the first Arab city in the Maghrib. It was chosen as the Maghrib capital by the Aghlabid dynasty งใ 800. It served as an administrative, commercial, religious, and intellectual centre under the Fatimid and Zirid dynasties. The rise of Tunis, the new capital, led to Kairouan's decline and its devastation by Bedouin in the 11th century. It is the site of the 9th-century Great Mosque of the Qayrawan, one of the city's 150 mosques.


Hegglin's anomaly (medicine)


Hegglin's anomaly


A disorder in which neutrophils and eosinophils contain basophilic structures known as Dohle or Amato bodies and in which there is faulty maturation of platelets, with thrombocytopenia; autosomal dominant inheritance.

Synonym: May-Hegglin anomaly.