| jan | One of intermediate order between angels and men. Origin: Ar. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Janet's test | A test for functional or organic anaesthesia; the patient (with eyes closed) is told to say "yes" or "no" when he feels or does not feel the touch of the examiner's finger; in the case of functional anaesthesia he may say "no" when an anaesthetic area is touched, but will say nothing, being unaware that he is touched, in cases of organic anaesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Janet, Pierre | <person> French neurologist, 1859-1947. See: Janet's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Janeway lesion | One of the stigmata of infectious endocarditis: irregular, erythematous, flat, painless macules on the palms, soles, thenar and hypothenar eminences of the hands, tips of the fingers, and plantar surfaces of the toes; rarely a diffuse rash. In acute endocarditis the lesions may be haemorrhagic or purple. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Janeway, Edward | <person> U.S. Physician, 1841-1911. See: Janeway lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| jangle | 1. To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune. 2. To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip. "Thou janglest as a jay." 3. To quarrel in words; to altercate; to wrangle. "Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree." (Shak) "Prussian Trenck . . . Jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner." (Carlyle) Origin: OE. Janglen to quarrel, OF. Jangler to rail, quarrel; of Dutch or German origin; cf. D. Jangelen, janken, to whimper, chide, brawl, quarrel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| jangleress | A female prater or babbler. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| janiceps | Conjoined twins having their two heads fused together, with the faces looking in opposite directions. See: conjoined twins. See: craniopagus, syncephalus. Origin: L. Janus, a Roman diety having two faces, + caput, head (05 Mar 2000) |
| janiceps asymmetrus | A janiceps with one very small and imperfectly developed face. Synonym: iniops, syncephalus asymmetros. (05 Mar 2000) |
| janiceps parasiticus | A janiceps in which one of the twins is a small and incompletely formed parasite attached to the more fully formed autosite. (05 Mar 2000) |
| janitrix | A female janitor. Origin: L. Janitrix. See Janitor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Jansen's operation | An operation for frontal sinus disease, the lower wall and lower portion of the anterior wall being removed and the mucous membrane curetted away. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Jansen, Albert | <person> German otologist, 1859-1933. See: Jansen's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| jansenist | A follower of Cornelius Jansen, a Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres, in Flanders, in the 17th century, who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace. Origin: F. Janseniste. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Jansky's classification | The classification of human blood groups now designated O, A, B, and AB. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gunning, Jan | <person> Dutch chemist, 1827-1901. See: Gunning's reaction. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Dogiel, Jan von | <person> Russian anatomist and physiologist, 1830-1905. See: Dogiel's cells. (05 Mar 2000) |