Hassall — Arthur, British physician, 1817–1894. See H. bodies, under body, H. concentric corpuscle, under corpuscle, H. Henle bodies, under body, Virchow H. bodies, under body … Medical dictionary
Henle — Friedrich G.J., German anatomist, pathologist, and histologist, 1809–1885. See crypts of H., under crypt, H. ampulla, H. ansa, H. glands, under gland, H. fissures, under fissure, H. layer, H. fiber layer, H. nervous layer, H. loop, H. membrane, H … Medical dictionary
Arthur Hill Hassall — (13 December 1817, Teddington 9 April 1894, San Remo) was a British physician, chemist and microscopist who is primarily known for his work in public health and food safety.He entered medicine through apprenticeship in 1834 to his uncle Sir James … Wikipedia
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle — (July 9, 1809 May 13, 1885) was a German physician, pathologist and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay On Miasma and Contagia was an early argument for the germ theory of disease. He was an… … Wikipedia
body — 1. The head, neck, trunk, and extremities. The human b., consisting of head (caput), neck (collum), trunk (truncus), and limbs (membra). 2. The material part of a human, as distinguished from the … Medical dictionary
Wart — A local growth of the outer layer of the skin (the epidermis) caused by a virus. The virus of warts (a papillomavirus) is transmitted by contact. The contact can be with a wart on someone else or one on oneself (autoinoculation). Warts that occur … Medical dictionary
