| Velpeau, Alfred | <person> French surgeon, 1795-1867. See: Velpeau's bandage, Velpeau's canal, Velpeau's fossa, Velpeau's hernia. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Velpeau's bandage | A bandage which serves to immobilise arm to chest wall, with the forearm positioned obliquely across and upward on front of chest. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Velpeau's canal | A passage in the lower anterior abdominal wall which in the male allows passage of the spermatic cord and in the female contains the round ligament. Because of the weakness it creates in the abdominal wall, it is the most frequent site for a hernia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Velpeau's fossa | A wedge-shaped space with its base toward the perineum and lying between the tuberosity of the ischium and the obturator internus muscle laterally and the external anal sphincter and the levator ani muscle medially. Synonym: fossa ischiorectalis, ischioanal fossa, Velpeau's fossa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Velpeau's hernia | Femoral hernia in which the intestine is in front of the blood vessels. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Adler, Alfred | <person> Austrian psychiatrist, 1870-1937. See: adlerian psychology, adlerian psychoanalysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Adson, Alfred W | <person> U.S. Neurosurgeon, 1887-1951. See: Adson's test, Adson forceps, Adson manoeuvre, Brown-Adson forceps. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Alfred Wallace | <person> A British naturalist who founded the field of biogeography and independently formulated a theory of natural selection around the same time that Darwin was doing his work. Lived: 1823-1913. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Allen, Alfred | <person> U.S. Chemist, 1846-1904. See: Allen's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bielschowsky, Alfred | <person> German ophthalmologist, 1871-1940. See: Bielschowsky's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Biesiadecki, Alfred von | <person> Polish physician, 1839-1888. See: Biesiadecki's fossa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Binet, Alfred | <person> French psychologist, 1857-1911. See: Binet age, Binet scale, Binet test, Binet-Simon scale, Stanford-Binet intelligence scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Blalock, Alfred | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1899-1965. See: Blalock shunt, Blalock-Hanlon operation, Blalock-Taussig operation, Blalock-Taussig shunt. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bruck, Alfred | <person> German physician, *1865. See: Bruck's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| MacConkey, Alfred | <person> British bacteriologist, 1861-1931. See: MacConkey agar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Vogt, Alfred | <person> Swiss ophthalmologist, 1879-1943. See: Vogt-Koyanagi syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |