| Crosby, William Holmes Jr | <person> U.S. Physician, *1914. See: Crosby capsule. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Crosby capsule | An attachment to the end of a flexible tube, used for peroral biopsy of the small intestine, by which a piece of mucosa is sucked into an opening in the capsule and cut off. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Rahe-Holmes social readjustment rating scale | A widely used scale in the social and behavioural sciences that assigns values to significant life events such as marriage, birth of offspring, bereavement, loss of job; such events correlate with emotional states. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Holmes-Adie pupil | <syndrome> A condition manifested by usually one tonic pupil with absent tendon reflexes. An idiopathic postganglionic denervation of the parasympathetically innervated intraocular muscles, usually complicated by signs of aberrant regeneration of these nerves: a weak light reaction with segmental palsy of iris sphincter, a strong slow near response. Deep tendon reflexes, particularly ankle and knee, are often asymmetrically reduced. See: tonic pupil. Synonym: Adie's pupil, Holmes-Adie pupil, Holmes-Adie syndrome, pupillotonic pseudotabes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Holmes-Adie syndrome | <syndrome> A condition manifested by usually one tonic pupil with absent tendon reflexes. An idiopathic postganglionic denervation of the parasympathetically innervated intraocular muscles, usually complicated by signs of aberrant regeneration of these nerves: a weak light reaction with segmental palsy of iris sphincter, a strong slow near response. Deep tendon reflexes, particularly ankle and knee, are often asymmetrically reduced. See: tonic pupil. Synonym: Adie's pupil, Holmes-Adie pupil, Holmes-Adie syndrome, pupillotonic pseudotabes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Holmes heart | A variant of double inlet left ventricle where the ventricular-arterial connection is concordant and the right ventricle is rudimentary. Horizontal heart, description of the heart's electrical position; recognised in the electrocardiogram when the QRS in lead aVL resembles that in V6 and QRS in aVF resembles that in V1; also, loosely, when the electrical axis lies between -30 |
| Holmes, Oliver Wendell | <person> American physician, identified the mode of spread and control of puerperal fever, thus saving innumerable young women's lives. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Holmes, Sir Gordon | <person> English neurologist, 1876-1965. See: Holmes-Adie pupil, Holmes-Adie syndrome, Stewart-Holmes sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Holmes' stain | <technique> A silver nitrate staining method for nerve fibres. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Holmes, Thomas | <person> U.S. Psychiatrist, *1918. See: Holmes-Rahe questionnaire. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stewart-Holmes sign | <clinical sign> In cerebellar disease, the inability to check a movement when passive resistance is suddenly released. Synonym: rebound phenomenon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Adams, Sir William | <person> British surgeon, 1760-1829. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Adie, William J | <person> Australian physician, 1886-1935. See: Adie's pupil, Adie syndrome, Holmes-Adie pupil, Holmes-Adie syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Aston, Francis William | <person, radiobiology> Physicist at Cambridge University who invented the mass spectrometer in 1919, a device which could measure the mass of individual atoms. This device led to his discovery that the helium nucleus was less massive than the two hydrogen nuclei which could have formed it (implying that the missing mass could somehow be converted into energy through the process of nuclear fusion). (09 Oct 1997) |
| Baker, William | <person> English surgeon, 1839-1896. See: Baker's cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bevan-Lewis, William | <person> English physician and physiologist, 1847-1929. See: Bevan-Lewis cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
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