cuffing


cuffing

 [kuf´ing] formation of a cufflike surrounding border, as of leukocytes about a blood vessel observed in certain infections.

cuff·ing

(kŭf'ing), 1. A perivascular accumulation of various leukocytes seen in infectious, inflammatory, or autoimmune diseases. 2. To surround a structure with fluid or cells, as with a cuff; in chest radiography, thickening of bronchial walls on the image. [M.E. cuffe, mitten]
The sheathing of a tubular structure—e.g., a blood vessel or lymphatic—with WBCs, in response to an infection or autoimmune phenomena