Diastolic heart failure — Diastolic dysfunction Classification and external resources ICD 9 428.3 Diastolic heart failure or diastolic dysfunction refers to decline in performance of one or both ventricles of the heart during the time phase of diastole. Diastole is that… … Wikipedia
Macaulay, Dame Emilie Rose — (1881 1958) Born at Rugby, Warwickshire, she was the daughter of an assistant master at Rugby School (later a lecturer in English at Cambridge) and related to the historian Lord Macaulay (see entry). Educated mainly by her parents while they… … British and Irish poets
Nesbit, Edith — (1858 1924) She was born in London, the daughter of John Collis Nesbit, agricultural chemist. Following her father s death in 1862, the family lived in France and Germany until 1872. Soon she married the writer Hubert Bland in 1880; he… … British and Irish poets
Brittain, Vera — (1892 1970) Newcastle born feminist, poet and novelist, from a wealthy background. World War I interrupted her study at Somerville College, Oxford, and she joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment (V.A.D.) and nursed in France. After the War, back… … British and Irish poets
Cannan, May Wedderburn — (1893 1973) She was born at Oxford, where her father was dean of Trinity College. In 1911 she joined the Vol58 untary Aid Detachment, and when war broke out she spent some time nursing in Rouen. Returning to England, she helped her father run… … British and Irish poets
Letts, Winifred Mary — (1882 1971) She was born in Manchester or Cheshire of an English father and Irish mother and educated in Bromley, Kent, and Alexandra College, Dublin. During World War I she worked as a nurse at various base hospitals. After her marriage to… … British and Irish poets
Sackville, Lady Margaret — (1881 1936) Although Lady Margaret Sackville was a popular and prolific writer during the first half of the twentieth century, details about her life are scant. She was the daughter of Reginald Windsor Sackville, 7th Earl De La Warr, and a… … British and Irish poets
Tynan, Katharine — (1861 1931) Born at Whitehall, Clondalkin, County Dublin, the daughter of a farmer, her education was curtailed by measles, which affected her eyes. Through her writing she supported the fight for Irish home rule in the 1880s. After her first… … British and Irish poets
Webb, Mary Gladys — (1881 1927) The daughter of George Edward Meredith, a schoolmaster of Welsh descent, and a Scottish mother, she was born at Leighton under theWrekin, Shropshire, where she was brought up. In 1912 she married a schoolmaster, and after several… … British and Irish poets
Rhinoplasty — For the album by Primus, see Rhinoplasty (album). Rhinoplasty Intervention Rhinoplasty: The lower lateral cartilage (greater alar cartilage) exposed for plastic modification via the left nostril … Wikipedia
