| Kennedy, William | <person> U.S. Neurologist. See: Kennedy's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Young, William | <person> 20th century Australian biochemist. See: Harden-Young ester. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Farr, William | <person> English medical statistician, 1807-1883. See: Farr's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Fergusson, Sir William | <person> Scottish surgeon, 1808-1877. See: Fergusson's incision. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Fothergill, William | <person> English gynecologist, 1865-1926. See: Fothergill's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Leishman, Sir William | <person> Scottish surgeon, 1865-1926. See: Leishmania, Leishman's chrome cells, Leishman's stain, Leishman-Donovan body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lennox, William | <person> U.S. Neurologist, 1884-1960. See: Lennox syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Little, William | <person> English surgeon, 1810-1894. See: Little's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Logan, William | <person> Early 20th century U.S. Plastic surgeon. See: Logan's bow. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Longmire, William Jr | <person> U.S. Surgeon, *1913. See: Longmire's operation. (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) |
| all or none law | Consistently total response to any effective stimulus. Synonym: all or none law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| American Law Institute formulation | Used in certain jurisdictions to determine criminal responsibility in legal proceedings. See: criminal insanity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| American Law Institute rule | A test of criminal responsibility (1962): "a person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law." (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ampere's law | <physics> General equation in electromagnetism relating the magnetic field and the currents generating it. The various forms of the equation can be found in an introductory electromagnetism text. (09 Oct 1997) |