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  • small pupil of the eye that reduces in size when the patient focuses on a near object but does not constrict when exposed to bright light. It is a sign...
    935 bytes (115 words) - 04:17, 28 September 2024
  • (1837–1909), a Scottish ophthalmologist and surgeon, who described the condition in the mid-1860s in the context of neurosyphilis. English Wikipedia has...
    568 bytes (77 words) - 04:17, 28 September 2024
  • and the forced resort to artificial light explain the cause of premature loss of vision which is so common among the officers in our service. The large...
    934 bytes (117 words) - 20:02, 28 May 2024
  • the ironic meaning being attached to "surgeons" (carabin de St Côme, recorded 1650, Saint Cosmas being their patron), with the transfer to "light cavalrist"...
    1 KB (199 words) - 20:40, 2 June 2024
  • 2019, "Top 10 Plastic Surgeons in Manhattan", Art Bodega Magazine, December/January 2019: At his Upper East Side office, the talented doctor has a very...
    13 KB (1,317 words) - 18:26, 20 November 2024
  • invented and advertised in the Lancet a new instrument which is termed a " lithophone," and is to enable surgeons to hear a stone in the bladder. 1885 August...
    4 KB (580 words) - 10:10, 27 September 2024
  • bolis (category Latin feminine nouns in the third declension)
    followed by a train of light or sparks; especially one which explodes. Synonyms: bolide, fireball 1851, British Association for the Advancement of Science...
    2 KB (325 words) - 04:41, 12 November 2024
  • employed for the observation of light or luminous effects. Any of various devices to aid in vision. 1889 July 13, “Another Wonder”, in The Deseret Weekly...
    2 KB (330 words) - 02:19, 16 September 2024
  • Arctic (category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂retḱ-)
    published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page): What neede the artick people loue star-light, To whom the sunne shines both by day and night. 1667...
    11 KB (646 words) - 19:05, 6 September 2024
  • microcosm (category Word of the day archive)
    McIntyre, The Guardian: ‘In a sense, the problems experienced at Bristol are like a microcosm of what is happening in the NHS - experienced surgeons battling...
    7 KB (576 words) - 10:29, 25 September 2024
  • probe (category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰuH-)
    test, examine, prove”); Doublet of proof. Compare Spanish tienta (“a surgeon's probe”), from tentar (“try, test”); see tempt. (UK) IPA(key): /pɹəʊb/...
    10 KB (742 words) - 15:50, 27 October 2024
  • operate (category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃ep-)
    experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year. (intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result...
    11 KB (891 words) - 04:07, 28 September 2024
  • A light sleigh drawn by one horse. 2007, Carrie A. Meyer, Days on the Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press, page 55: Throughout much of the winter, the sled...
    11 KB (967 words) - 23:17, 7 November 2024
  • than a century to allow doctors and surgeons to slip them on more easily. 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […]...
    15 KB (1,034 words) - 11:46, 16 October 2024
  • to change the light bulbs [online version: Wanted: an enthusiastic and proactive individual to run the Queen’s bath, 24 January 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph‎[2]...
    14 KB (919 words) - 09:01, 8 November 2024
  • incarnate (category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)ker- (cut))
    Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 218: Not all of the soul...
    7 KB (770 words) - 10:33, 7 November 2024
  • (specifically) a type of firework of this form, typically exploding with light and colour; a skyrocket. [from 16th c.] A blunt lance head used in jousting...
    18 KB (1,039 words) - 12:37, 9 November 2024
  • the serjeant saw me, he cast his coat and put it on me, and they carried me on their shoulders to a village where the wounded were and our surgeons […]...
    41 KB (4,256 words) - 22:28, 2 December 2024
  • as 1818), →OCLC: “A surgeon!” said Anne. He caught the word; it seemed to rouse him at once, and saying only—“True, true, a surgeon this instant,” was...
    9 KB (1,398 words) - 18:38, 24 November 2024
  • well (category Pages using the WikiHiero extension)
    National Association of Railway Surgeons, Railway surgeon, page 191: On leaving the operating table it is well to put the patient in a bed previously warmed...
    53 KB (3,826 words) - 12:12, 26 October 2024
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