| Mayo, William | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1861-1939. See: Mayo's operation, Mayo's vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Mayo bunionectomy | Excision of the head of the first metatarsal. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Mayo, Charles | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1865-1939. See: Mayo bunionectomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mayo-Robson, Sir Arthur | <person> British surgeon, 1853-1933. See: Mayo-Robson's point, Mayo-Robson's position. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mayo-Robson's point | A point just above and to the right of the umbilicus, where tenderness on pressure exists in disease of the pancreas. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mayo-Robson's position | A supine position with a thick pad under the loins, causing a marked lordosis in this region; used in operations on the gallbladder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mayo's operation | An operation for the radical cure of umbilical hernia; the neck of the sac is exposed by two elliptical incisions, the gut is returned to the abdomen, the sac and adherent omentum are cut away, and the fascial edges of the opening are overlapped with mattress sutures. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mayo's vein | <anatomy, vein> A tributary of the right gastric vein that passes anterior to the pylorus at its junction with the duodenum. Synonym: vena prepylorica, Latarget's vein, Mayo's vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Adams, Sir William | <person> British surgeon, 1760-1829. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Adie, William J | <person> Australian physician, 1886-1935. See: Adie's pupil, Adie syndrome, Holmes-Adie pupil, Holmes-Adie syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Aston, Francis William | <person, radiobiology> Physicist at Cambridge University who invented the mass spectrometer in 1919, a device which could measure the mass of individual atoms. This device led to his discovery that the helium nucleus was less massive than the two hydrogen nuclei which could have formed it (implying that the missing mass could somehow be converted into energy through the process of nuclear fusion). (09 Oct 1997) |
| Baker, William | <person> English surgeon, 1839-1896. See: Baker's cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bevan-Lewis, William | <person> English physician and physiologist, 1847-1929. See: Bevan-Lewis cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bonwill, William | <person> U.S. Dentist, 1833-1899. See: Bonwill triangle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bowman, Sir William | <person> B. Nantwich, Cheshire, July 20th, 1816. Was a Surgeon and Anatomist. Was Surgeon to Birmingham General Hospital and went to London in 1837. Was elected F.R.S. (1841) and F.R.C.S. (1854) and was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at King's College, London (1848-1956). Was the leading Opthalmic Surgeon in England. D. At his house, Joldwynds, near Dorking, Mar. 29th, 1892. Bowman's Capsule - surrounding the glomerulus in the kidney. Bowman's Glands - glands in the olfactory mucous membrane. On the structure and use of the Malpighian bodies of the kidney. Phil Trans. 1842. Much of Bowman's best anatomical work is to be found in Robert Todd's Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. London 1835-1859. Lived: 1816-1892. (05 Dec 1998) |
| Braasch, William | <person> U.S. Urologist, 1878-1975. See: Braasch catheter. (05 Mar 2000) |