| frank | 1. <ethnology> A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France. 2. A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; a term used in the Levant. 3. A French coin. See Franc. Origin: Cf. F. Franc. See Frank. <zoology> The common heron; so called from its note. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Frank, Otto | <person> German physiologist, 1865-1944. See: Frank-Starling curve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frank-marriage | A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten. Origin: Frank free + marriage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Frank-Starling curve | A graph in which cardiac output or stroke volume is plotted against mean atrial or ventricular end-diastolic pressure; with increasing venous return and atrial pressure the output proportionately increases until further increments overload the heart and the output falls. Synonym: Frank-Starling curve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Frankenhauser's ganglion | A gangliated autonomic plexus on each side of the cervix of the uterus, derived from the inferior hypogastric plexus. Synonym: plexus uterovaginalis, Frankenhauser's ganglion, Lee's ganglion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Frankenhauser, Ferdinand | <person> German gynecologist, 1832-1894. See: Frankenhauser's ganglion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Frankfort | More specifically see: Frankfort horizontal plane, Frankfort-mandibular incisor angle. Origin: Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (05 Mar 2000) |
| Frankfort horizontal plane | A standard craniometric reference plane passing through the right and left porion and the left orbitale; drawn on the profile radiograph or photograph from the superior margin of the acoustic meatus to the orbitale. Synonym: auriculo-infraorbital plane, eye-ear plane, Frankfort horizontal plane, Frankfort plane, infraorbitomeatal plane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Frankfort plane | A standard craniometric reference plane passing through the right and left porion and the left orbitale; drawn on the profile radiograph or photograph from the superior margin of the acoustic meatus to the orbitale. Synonym: auriculo-infraorbital plane, eye-ear plane, Frankfort horizontal plane, Frankfort plane, infraorbitomeatal plane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Frankfort-mandibular incisor angle | Any of several variously named and variously defined anatomical angle's that have been used to quantify facial protrusion, in dentistry, the angle formed by the intersection of the orbitomeatal (Frankfort) plane with the nasion-pogonion line (inner lower angle), which establishes the anteroposterior relation of the mandible to the upper face at the orbitomeatal plane. Synonym: Frankfort-mandibular incisor angle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Frankia | <organism> Genus of actinomycetes capable of nitrogen fixation, both independently and in symbiotic association with roots of certain nonleguminous plants, notably alder. (18 Nov 1997) |
| frankincense | A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified. Origin: OF. Franc free, pure + encens incense. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| franking | A method of forming a joint at the intersection of window-sash bars, by cutting away only enough wood to show a miter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Franklin spectacles | An early form of bifocal spectacles in which the lower half of the lens is for near vision, the upper half for distant vision. Synonym: divided spectacles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Franklin's disease | gamma-heavy-chain disease |
| Bassen, Frank | <person> U.S. Physician, *1903. See: Bassen-Kornzweig syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Mallory, Frank | <person> U.S. Pathologist, 1862-1941. See: Mallory bodies, picro-Mallory trichrome stain. See entries under stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mann, Frank | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1887-1962. See: Mann-Bollman fistula, Mann-Williamson operation, Mann-Williamson ulcer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gerbode, Frank | <person> See: Gerbode defect. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Meleney, Frank | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1889-1963. See: Meleney's gangrene, Meleney's ulcer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Robertshaw, Frank | <person> 20th century English anaesthesiologist. See: Robertshaw tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wilson, Frank Norman | <person> U.S. Cardiologist, 1890-1952. See: Wilson block. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cotton, Frank | <person> U.S. Chemist, *1930. See: Cotton effect. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hamilton, Frank Hastings | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1813-1886. See: Hamilton's pseudophlegmon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Horsfall, Frank L Jr | <person> U.S. Physician, 1906-1971. See: Tamm-Horsfall mucoprotein, Tamm-Horsfall protein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dickens, Frank | <person> British biochemist, *1899. See: Dickens shunt, Warburg-Lipmann-Dickens-Horecker shunt. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Johnson, Frank | <person> U.S. Paediatrician, 1894-1934. See: Stevens-Johnson syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Johnson, Frank B | <person> U.S. Pathologist, *1919. See: Dubin-Johnson syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lahey, Frank | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1880-1935. See: Lahey forceps. (05 Mar 2000) |