1. a plaque consisting of tangles of amyloid protein in nervous tissue (a pathological mark of Alzheimer's disease); [syn: amyloid plaque, amyloid protein plaque]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
amyloid protein plaque
n 1: a plaque consisting of tangles of amyloid protein in
nervous tissue (a pathological mark of Alzheimer's disease)
[syn: amyloid plaque, amyloid protein plaque]