| Russell effect | The ability of an agent, other than light, to make a developable latent image in a photographic film emulsion. Synonym: Russell effect. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Brain, W Russell Lord | <person> English physician, 1895-1966. See: Brain's reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Brock, Sir Russell | <person> British surgeon, *1903. See: Brock's syndrome, Brock operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell, Albert | <person> U.S. Dentist, *1905. See: Russell's Periodontal Index. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell, Alexander | <person> 20th century British paediatrician. See: Russell's syndrome, Silver-Russell dwarfism, Silver-Russell syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell bodies | Small, discrete, variably sized, spherical, intracytoplasmic, acidophilic, hyaline body's that stain deeply with fuchsin; they occur frequently in plasma cells in chronic inflammation, where they are believed to consist of gamma-globulin. Synonym: fuchsin bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell, G | <person> 20th century English physician. See: Russell's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell, Hamilton | <person> 20th century Australian surgeon. See: Russell traction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell, James | <person> British physician, 1863-1939. See: hooked bundle of Russell, uncinate bundle of Russell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell, Patrick | <person> Irish physician in India, 1727-1805. See: Russell's viper venom, Russell's viper. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell's Periodontal Index | An index that estimates the degree of periodontal disease present in the mouth by measuring both bone loss around the teeth and gingival inflammation; used frequently in the epidemiological investigation of periodontal disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell's sign | <clinical sign> Abrasions and scars on the back of the hands of individuals with bulimia, usually due to manual attempts at self-induced vomiting. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell's syndrome | <syndrome> Failure of infants and young children to thrive due to suprasellar lesions, commonly astrocytomas of the anterior third ventricle; although the growth hormone may be elevated, the child is emaciated and has loss of body fat. See: pseudohydrocephaly. (05 Mar 2000) |
| russell's viper | A genus of snakes of the family viperidae. It is distributed in west pakistan, most of india, burma, ceylon, thailand, southeast china, taiwan, and a few islands of indonesia. It hisses loudly when disturbed and strikes with great force and speed. Very prolific, it gives birth to 20-60 young. This viper is the leading cause of snakebite in india and burma. (moore: poisonous snakes of the world, 1980, p127) (12 Dec 1998) |
| Russell's viper venom | A venom used as a coagulant in the arrest of haemorrhage from accessible sites in haemophilia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Russell's viper venom clotting time | A clotting time determination performed on citrated platelet-poor plasma using Russell's viper venom as an activating agent. This allows activation of factor X directly without the need for other coagulation factors and is used to confirm factor X defects. See: Stypven time test. (05 Mar 2000) |