School of Fish Appearance

A descriptive term for a light microscopic pattern characterised by multiple, discrete oval-to-elongated structures arranged in long, roughly parallel fascicles
Microbiology A fanciful term for the light microscopic appearance of the gram-negative bipolar-staining coccobacillus Haemophilus ducreyi, the chancroid agent
Pathology An arrangement of the fascicles of malignant cells in fibroscarcoma, commonly known as a ‘storiform pattern’