| Gould, Sir Alfred | <person> English surgeon, 1852-1922. See: Gould's suture. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Gunzberg, Alfred | <person> German physician, *1861. See: Gunzberg's reagent, Gunzberg's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Moeller, Alfred | <person> German bacteriologist, *1868. See: Moeller's grass bacillus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wallace, Alfred Russel | <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) |
| Musset, L Alfred de | <person> French poet, 1810-1857; person in whom Musset's sign was studied. See: Musset's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Saenger, Alfred | <person> German neurologist, 1860-1921. See: Saenger's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hess, Alfred | <person> U.S. Physician, 1875-1933. See: Hess' test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hoche, Alfred | <person> German psychiatrist. Lived: 1865-1943. See: Hoche's bundle, Hoche's tract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stieda, Alfred | <person> German surgeon, 1869-1945. See: Pellegrini-Stieda disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Donne, Alfred | <person> French physician, 1801-1878. See: Donne's corpuscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Duhrssen, Alfred | <person> German obstetrician-gynecologist, 1862-1933. See: Duhrssen's incisions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Feldman, Harry Alfred | <person> U.S. Epidemiologist, *1914. See: Sabin-Feldman dye test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Fleisch, Alfred | <person> Swiss physician and physiologist, *1892. See: Fleisch pneumotachograph. (05 Mar 2000) |
| abductor digiti minimi muscle of hand | Origin, pisiform bone and pisohamate ligament; insertion, medial side of base of proximal phalanx of the little finger; action, abducts and flexes little finger; nerve supply, ulnar. Synonym: musculus abductor digiti minimi manus, abductor muscle of little finger, musculus abductor digiti quinti. (05 Mar 2000) |
| accoucheur's hand | Position of the hand in tetany or in muscular dystrophy; the fingers are flexed at the metacarpophalangeal joints and extended at the phalangeal joints, with the thumb flexed and adducted into the palm; in resemblance to the position of the physician's hand in making a vaginal examination. Synonym: main d'accoucheur, obstetrical hand. (05 Mar 2000) |