| Beau, Joseph | <person> French physician, 1806-1865. See: Beau's lines. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Bertin, Exupere Joseph | <person> French anatomist, 1712-1781. See: Bertin's bones, Bertin's columns, Bertin's ligament, Bertin's ossicles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Machado-Joseph | A rare form of hereditary ataxia, characterised by onset in early adult life of progressive, spinocerebellar and extrapyramidal disease with external ophthalmoplegia, rigidity dystonia symptoms, and, often, peripheral amyotrophy; found predominantly in people of Azorean ancestry; autosomal dominant inheritance. Synonym: Azorean disease, Portuguese-Azorean disease. Origin: Surnames of two families studied in major descriptions of the disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| machado-joseph disease | A progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system occurring in portuguese-azorean families, having a variety of forms and inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. There are four major types: type I: with pyramidal and extrapyramidal deficits; type II: with cerebellar, pyramidal and extrapyramidal deficits; type III: with cerebellar deficits and distal sensorimotor neuropathy; type IV: with parkinsonism and distal sensory neuropathy. It was originally reported in two portuguese-azorean families in massachusettes (machado), then in another portuguese family (thomas), and later in a third family in california (joseph, who settled there in 1845). It has been reported also in japanese families. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Pancoast, Joseph | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1805-1882. See: Pancoast's suture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Paneth, Joseph | <person> A Physiologist who held Chairs in the Universities of Breslau and Vienna. Paneth's Cells - "cellules etroites" of the mucosa of the small intestine. Lived: 1857-1890. B. Vienna, Oct 6th, 1857, d. Vienna, Jan 4th, 1890. (05 Dec 1998) |
| Gay-Lussac, Joseph | <person> French naturalist, 1778-1850. See: Gay-Lussac's equation, Gay-Lussac's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ransohoff, Joseph | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1853-1921. See: Ransohoff's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Recamier, Joseph | <person> French gynecologist, 1774-1852. See: Recamier's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gerlach, Joseph | <person> German anatomist, 1820-1896. See: Gerlach's annular tendon, Gerlach's tonsil, valve of vermiform appendix, Gerlach's valvula. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Carpue, Joseph | <person> British surgeon, 1764-1846. See: Carpue's method. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wenzel, Joseph | <person> German anatomist and physiologist, 1768-1808. See: Wenzel's ventricle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wilder, Joseph | <person> U.S. Neuropsychiatrist, *1895. See: Wilder's law of initial value. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Plateau, Joseph Antoine Ferdinand | <person> Belgian physicist, 1801-1883. See: Plateau-Talbot law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Henry, Joseph | <person> U.S. Physicist, 1797-1878. See: Dalton-Henry law. (05 Mar 2000) |