| VG | van Gieson [stain]; ventricular gallop; volume of gas |
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| vWS | van der Woude syndrome; viewing work station; von Willebrand syndrome |
| Paxton, Francis | <person> English physician, 1840-1924. See: Paxton's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Roughton, Francis | <person> British scientist, 1899-1972. See: Roughton-Scholander apparatus, Roughton-Scholander syringe. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Crick, Francis | <person> An English biologist born in 1916 who was one of three people to win the Nobel Prize in 1962 for the category of physiology or medicine. He and James Watson, an American biochemist and alumnus of Indiana University, discovered the double-stranded helix structure of the DNA molecule and built the Watson-Crick model of this structure. Their work was heavily based on the work of Maurice Wilkins (who also won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1962) and Rosalind Franklin (who died before the 1962 Nobel Prize winners were selected). The model they postulated is the accepted model used today. Lived: 1916- (13 Nov 1997) |
| Senear, Francis | <person> U.S. Dermatologist, 1889-1958. See: Senear-Usher disease, Senear-Usher syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Shepherd, Francis | <person> Canadian surgeon, 1851-1929. See: Shepherd's fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dercum, Francis | <person> U.S. Neurologist, 1856-1931. See: Dercum's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kiernan, Francis | <person> English physician, 1800-1874. See: Kiernan's space. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Francis Aston | <person, radiobiology> Physicist at Cambridge University who invented the mass spectrometer in 1919, a device which could measure the mass of individual atoms. This device led to his discovery that the helium nucleus was less massive than the two hydrogen nuclei which could have formed it (implying that the missing mass could somehow be converted into energy through the process of nuclear fusion). (09 Oct 1997) |
| Francis Crick | <person> An English biologist born in 1916 who was one of three people to win the Nobel Prize in 1962 for the category of physiology or medicine. He and James Watson, an American biochemist and alumnus of Indiana University, discovered the double-stranded helix structure of the DNA molecule and built the Watson-Crick model of this structure. Their work was heavily based on the work of Maurice Wilkins (who also won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1962) and Rosalind Franklin (who died before the 1962 Nobel Prize winners were selected). The model they postulated is the accepted model used today. Lived: 1916- (13 Nov 1997) |
| francis turbine | A water-powered turbine used to transform water falling vertically to mechanical (rotating) energy. (05 Dec 1998) |
| Allen, Edgar Van Nuys | <person> U.S. Physician, 1900-1961. See: Allen's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Canavan-van Bogaert-Bertrand disease | Autosomal recessive degenerative disease of infancy; mostly in Jewish infants; onset typically within first 3-4 months of birth, consisting of blindness, psychomotor regression, enlarged head, optic atrophy, hypotonia, spasticity, increased N-acetylaspartic acid urinary excretion. MRI shows enlarged brain, decreased attenuation of cerebral and cerebellar white matter, and normal ventricles. Pathologically, there is increased brain volume and weight, and spongy degeneration in the subcortical white matter. See: leukodystrophy. Synonym: Canavan's sclerosis, Canavan-van Bogaert-Bertrand disease, spongy degeneration of infancy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| van | The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle. "Standards and gonfalons, twixt van and rear, Stream in the air." (Milton) Origin: Abbrev. Fr. Vanguard. 1. A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain. 2. [OF. Vanne, F. Vanneau beam feather (cf. It. Vanno a wing) fr. L. Vannus. See Etymology above] A wing with which the air is beaten. "[/Angels] on the air plumy vans received him. " "He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans in vain; His vans no longer could his flight sustain." (Dryden) Origin: L. Vannus a van, or fan for winnowing grain: cf. F. Van. Cf. Fan, Van a wing Winnow. <chemical> A shovel used in cleansing ore. Origin: Cornish. <chemical> To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| van Bogaert encephalitis | <neurology> Chronic progressive illness seen in children a few years after measles infection and involving demyelination of the cerebral cortex. Virus apparently persists in brain cells: usually considered a slow virus disease. (18 Nov 1997) |
| van Bogaert, Ludo | <person> 20th century Belgian neurologist. See: Canavan-van Bogaert-Bertrand disease, van Bogaert encephalitis. (05 Mar 2000) |