| 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) |
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| Henry-Gauer response | Inhibition of antidiuretic hormone secretion due to a rise in atrial pressure which stimulates atrial stretch receptors. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Henry, James Paget | <person> U. S. Physiologist, *1914. See: Henry-Gauer response. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Henry, Joseph | <person> U.S. Physicist, 1797-1878. See: Dalton-Henry law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Henry's law | at equilibrium, at a given temperature, the amount of gas dissolved in a given volume of liquid is directly proportional to the partial pressure of that gas in the gas phase (this only holds for gases that do not react chemically with the solvent). (05 Mar 2000) |
| Henry, William | <person> British chemist, 1775-1837. See: Henry's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Savage, Henry | <person> English anatomist and gynecologist, 1810-1900. See: Savage's perineal body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Schmidt, Henry | <person> U.S. Anatomist and pathologist, 1823-1888. See: Schmidt-Lanterman clefts, Schmidt-Lanterman incisures. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Schmidt, Henry D | <person> B. 1823. Was Pathologist at the Charity Hospital, new Orleans. D. Nov. 23rd, 1888. Schmidt's Clefts - intersegmental clefts in the myelin sheath of peripheral nerves. On the construction of the dark or double-bordered nerve fibre. Lived: 1823-1888. (05 Dec 1998) |
| Schwartz, Henry | <person> U.S. Neurosurgeon, *1909. See: Schwartz tractotomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sherman, Henry | <person> U.S. Biochemist, 1875-1955. See: Sherman unit, Sherman-Bourquin unit of vitamin B2, Sherman-Munsell unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Silver, Henry | <person> U.S. Paediatrician, *1918. See: Silver-Russell dwarfism, Silver-Russell syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Smith, Henry | <person> Irish born British military surgeon in India, 1862-1948. See: Smith's operation, Smith-Indian operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Dalton-Henry law | In dissolving a mixture of gases, a liquid will absorb as much of each gas in the mixture as if that were the only gas dissolved. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Thompson, Sir Henry | <person> English surgeon, 1820-1904. See: Thompson's test. (05 Mar 2000) |