| ROW | Rendu-Osler-Weber [syndrome]; rest of the world |
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| SW | seriously wounded; short waves; sinewave; slow wave; soap and water; social worker; spike wave; spir... |
| SWS | slow-wave sleep; spike-wave stupor; steroid-wasting syndrome; Sturge-Weber syndrome |
| WASP | Weber Advanced Spatial Perception [test] |
| Wb | weber; well-being |
| Kasten, Frederick | <person> U.S. Histochemist and cell biologist, *1927. See: Kasten's fluorescent Schiff reagents, Kasten's fluorescent Feulgen stain, Kasten's fluorescent PAS stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Forchheimer, Frederick | <person> U.S. Physician, 1853-1913. See: Forchheimer's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Frederick Banting | <person> Banting received his medical degree from Toronto and served in the Canadian armed services during the First World War. He practiced orthopaedic surgery following the war, but was not too successful because of his disinterest. He asked the Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto if he could work on a problem he was interested in, and when he explained his idea relative to the pancreas, the professor poopooed his experiment. Regardless, he was given a dirty little lab in which to work. Banting was 30, and he was assisted by a 23-year-old second-year medical student, Charles H. Best. After eight months, in 1922, these two isolated insulin and published their discovery, which revolutionised the treatment for diabetes mellitus. In 1923, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was given to Banting and the physiology professor who loaned him the dirty lab to work in, J.J.R. Macleod. In 1924, Banting was knighted. Unfortunately, he was killed in an airplane accident in 1944. Lived: 1891-1944. (15 Nov 1997) |
| Frederick Griffith | <person> A bacteriologist who discovered that if he put pathogenic (disease-causing) pneumococcus bacteria which had been killed by heat in with nonpathogenic pneumococcus bacteria which were alive, then the live, nonpathogenic bacteria would become pathogenic. His work became the groundwork for other scientists to discover that DNA was the factor which transformed the bacteria. Lived: 1881-1941. (13 Nov 1997) |
| Li, Frederick | <person> 20th century epidemiologist. See: Li-Fraumeni cancer syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Rendu-Osler-Weber syndrome | <gastroenterology> An inherited disease characterised by thin blood vessel walls in the nose, skin and gastrointestinal tract. This condition ins associated with a high risk of bleeding complications. Inheritance: autosomal dominant. (27 Sep 1997) |
| weber | <physics> The standard unit of electrical quantity, and also of current. See Coulomb, and Ampre. Origin: From the name of Professor Weber, a German electrician. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Weber-Christian disease | relapsing febrile nodular nonsuppurative panniculitis |
| Weber-Cockayne syndrome | <syndrome> This represents a group of rare inherited disorders in which blistering of the skin occurs in response to skin trauma. Large fluid-filled blisters can occur in response to injury, skin rubbing, chafing or even increases in room temperature. Secondary bacterial infection of the blisters is common. Complications include oesophageal stricture, infections, loss of function of hands and feet and malnutrition. The dermatologist is the expert in the evaluation and treatment of this disorder. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Weber, Ernst | <person> German physiologist and anatomist, 1795-1878. See: Weber's experiment, Weber's glands, Weber's law, Weber's paradox, Weber's test for hearing, Fechner-Weber law, Weber-Fechner law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weber-Fechner law | The intensity of a sensation varies by a series of equal increments (arithmetically) as the strength of the stimulus is increased geometrically; if a series of stimuli is applied and so adjusted in strength that each stimulus causes a just perceptible change in intensity of the sensation, then the strength of each stimulus differs from the preceding one by a constant fraction; thus, if a just perceptible change in a visual sensation is produced by the addition of 1 candle to an original illumination of 100 candles, 10 candles will be required to produce any change in sensation when the original illumination was one of 1000 candles. Synonym: Fechner-Weber law, Weber's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weber, Moritz | <person> German anatomist, 1795-1875. See: Weber's organ. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weber's experiment | If the peripheral end of the divided vagus nerve is stimulated the heart is arrested in diastole. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weber's glands | Muciparous gland's at the border of the tongue on either side posteriorly. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weber, Sir Hermann | <person> English physician, 1823-1918. See: Weber's sign, Weber's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |