| Soemmerring, Samuel Thomas von | <person> German anatomist, 1755-1830. See: Soemmerring's ganglion, Soemmerring's ligament, Soemmerring's muscle, Soemmerring's spot, ring of Soemmerring. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Spens, Thomas | <person> Scottish physician, 1764-1842. See: Spens' syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stewart, Thomas Grainger | <person> 20th century English neurologist, 1877-1957. See: Stewart-Holmes sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| terry thomas sign | <radiology> A gap between the scaphoid and the lunate bones suggesting a rupture of the scapho-lunate ligament (12 Dec 1998) |
| Thomas | Hugh Owen, British surgeon, 1834-1891. See: Thomas splint. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Thomas splint | A long leg splint extending from a ring at the hip to beyond the foot, allowing traction to a fractured leg, for emergencies and transportation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Elliott, Thomas | <person> British physician, 1877-1961. See: Elliott's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Emmet, Thomas | <person> U.S. Gynecologist, 1828-1919. See: Emmet's needle, Emmet's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| James, Thomas | <person> U.S. Cardiologist and physiologist, *1925. See: James fibres, James tracts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Jonnesco, Thomas | <person> Roumanian surgeon, 1860-1926. See: Jonnesco's fossa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Young, Thomas | <person> English physician and physicist, 1773-1829. See: Young's modulus, Young's rule, Young-Helmholtz theory of colour vision. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kirk, Norman Thomas | <person> U.S. Army surgeon, 1888-1960. See: Kirk's amputation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Fogarty, Thomas | <person> U.S. Thoracic surgeon, *1934. See: Fogarty catheter, Fogarty clamp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lauth, Thomas | <person> German anatomist and surgeon, 1758-1826. See: Lauth's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Abbe's law of limiting resolution | <physics> For a periodic structure of units separated by distance d and obliquely illuminated by the unrefracted ray and one of the two diffracted rays (extremely oblique illumination). Abbe applied the law of diffraction: d = 0.5 lambda /NA, where: lambda = wavelength of the monochromic light or shortest of mixed wavelengths NA = the limiting numerical aperture (NA) of objective or condenser. (05 Aug 1998) |