| Hueck, Alexander | <person> German anatomist, 1802-1842. See: Hueck's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Huet, G | <person> Dutch physician, *1879. See: Pelger-Huet nuclear anomaly. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hueter's manoeuvre | <technique> Pressing the patient's tongue downward and forward with the left forefinger in passing a stomach tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hueter's sign | <clinical sign> In a case of fracture, the vibration expected on tapping the bone is not transmitted when tissue intervenes between the fractured parts of bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hueter, Karl | <person> German surgeon, 1838-1882. See: Hueter's manoeuvre, Hueter's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| huffiness | The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| huffish | Disposed to be blustering or arrogant; petulant.. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Hufner's equation | <physiology> An equation expressing the relationship between myoglobin dissociation and oxygen partial pressure: ([MBO2]/[Mb]) = (K x pO2). (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hufner, Carl Gustav von | <person> German physician, 1840-1908. See: Hufner's equation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Huggins' operation | <procedure> Orchidectomy performed for palliation or cure of cancer of the prostate. Synonym: castration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Huggins, Charles | <person> Canadian-U.S. Surgeon and Nobel laureate, 1901-1994. See: Huggins' operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hughes-Stovin syndrome | <syndrome> A syndrome characterised by aneurysms of the large and small pulmonary artery and thrombosis of peripheral veins and dural sinuses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| HUGO | Human Genome Organisation (the international organisation concerned with human genome research). (12 Dec 1998) |
| Huguier's canal | <anatomy> A canal in the petrotympanic or glaserian fissure, near its posterior edge, through which the chorda tympani nerve issues from the skull. Synonym: Civinini's canal, Huguier's canal, iter chordae anterius. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Huguier's circle | <anatomy> Anastomosis around the isthmus of the uterus (junction of the cervix with the body) between the right and left uterine arteries. (05 Mar 2000) |