| Henle, Friedrich | <person> German anatomist, pathologist, and histologist born in Furth, near Nuremberg, 1809. He was a student and Prosector of Anatomy in Berlin and became Professor of Anatomy in Zurich in 1840. In 1844 went to Heidelberg. From 1852 until his death was professor of Anatomy in Gottingen. Was one of the most celebrated German Anatomists of Jewish descent, well known for his many contributions to microscopic anatomy. D. 1885. Henle's Loop - the looped portion of the uriniferous tubules of the kidney. Allgemeine Anatomie. Leipzig. 1841. Systematiche Anatomie. Brunswick. 1855. Many other structures are associated with Henle's name and more than twenty ligaments were named by him. Lived: 1809-1885. See: crypts of Henle, Henle's ampulla, Henle's ansa, Henle's glands, Henle's fissures, Henle's layer, Henle's fibre layer, Henle's nervous layer, Henle's loop, Henle's membrane, Henle's fenestrated elastic membrane, Henle's reaction, Henle's sheath, Henle's spine, Henle's tubules, Henle's warts, Hassall-Henle bodies. (21 Jun 2000) |
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| henna | 1. <botany> A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. Alba). The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious ceremonies. The powdered leaves furnish a red colouring matter used in the East to stain the hails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc. 2. The leaves of the henna plant, or a preparation or dyestuff made from them. Origin: Ar. Hinna alcanna (Lawsonia inermis or alba). Cf. Alcanna, Alkanet, Orchanet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Hennebert's sign | <clinical sign> Nystagmus produced by pressure applied to a sealed external auditory canal; may be seen in labyrinthine fistula or with intact tympanic membrane in syphilitic involvement of the otic capsule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hennebert, Camille | <person> Belgian otologist, 1867-1958. See: Hennebert's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hennotannic | <chemistry> Pertaining to, or designating, a brown resinous substance resembling tannin, and extracted from the henna plant; as, hennotannic acid. Origin: Henna + tannic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Henoch's chorea | A disorder in which sudden spasmodic coordinated movements of certain muscles or groups of physiologically related muscles occur at irregular intervals. Synonym: Henoch's chorea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Henoch's purpura | <dermatology> This relatively rare disorder is characterised by skin purpura, joint pains, abdominal pain and renal disease (glomerulonephritis). Although Henoch-Schonlein purpura or anaphylactoid purpura, is thought to be a immune complex mediated disease, its exact cause is unknown. Its typical benign coarse can, however, include renal failure. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Henoch, Eduard | <person> German paediatrician, 1820-1910. See: Henoch's chorea, Henoch's purpura, Henoch-Schonlein purpura, Henoch-Schonlein syndrome, Schonlein-Henoch syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| henoch-schoenlein syndrome | <radiology> Acute, self-limited arteritis, often follows Strep infection, symptoms: purpura, nephritis, abdominal pain, joint pain, thick small bowel folds, thumbprinting in small bowel or colon (12 Dec 1998) |
| Henoch-Schonlein purpura | <dermatology> This relatively rare disorder is characterised by skin purpura, joint pains, abdominal pain and renal disease (glomerulonephritis). Although Henoch-Schonlein purpura or anaphylactoid purpura, is thought to be a immune complex mediated disease, its exact cause is unknown. Its typical benign coarse can, however, include renal failure. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Henoch-Schonlein syndrome | <dermatology> This relatively rare disorder is characterised by skin purpura, joint pains, abdominal pain and renal disease (glomerulonephritis). Although Henoch-Schonlein purpura or anaphylactoid purpura, is thought to be a immune complex mediated disease, its exact cause is unknown. Its typical benign coarse can, however, include renal failure. (27 Sep 1997) |
| henogenesis | <biology> Same as Ontogeny. Origin: Gr, masc, neut, one + root of to be born. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| henpuye | Synonym: goundou. Origin: native term on the Gold Coast (Ghana) meaning "dog-nose" (05 Mar 2000) |
| Henri, Victor | <person> French 20th-century biochemist. See: Michaelis-Menten equation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| henry | Origin: From Joseph Henry, an American physicist. The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electromotive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere a second. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |