Felix Jacob Marchand (22 October 1846 – 4 February 1928) was a Germanpathologist born inHalle an der Saale.

He studied medicine inBerlin, and later became an assistant at the pathological institute inHalle. In 1881 he became a professor ofpathological anatomy inGiessen, and two years later garnered the same position atMarburg. In 1900 he succeeded pathologistFelix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld (1842-1899) at theUniversity of Leipzig.

In 1904 Marchand is credited with coining the termatherosclerosis from the Greek "athero", meaning gruel, and "sclerosis", meaning hardening, to describe the fatty substance inside a hardenedartery. His name is lent to the eponymous "Marchand's adrenals", which is accessoryadrenal tissue in thebroad ligament of the uterus.

Among his written works was a 4-volume textbook on pathology that he co-authored withLudolf von Krehl (1861-1937), called "Handbuch der allgemeinen Pathologie".^[1]

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