Horsens
Horsens , city (1992 pop. 47,085), Vejle co., central Denmark, a port at the head of the Horsens Fjord, an inlet of the Kattegat. It is a commercial and industrial center. Horsens was a fortified town in the Middle Ages. It retains a noteworthy 13th-century monastery and church.
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The centennial of the Einthoven electrocardiogram
Magazine article from: Journal of Electrocardiology; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...obtained prior to the work of Willem Einthoven, his ingenuity in mathematically...clinical electrocardiography by Willem Einthoven of Leiden (Fig. 1). Recording...year of 1860 saw the birth of Willem Einthoven in Semarang, the Dutch East...
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Einthoven's left foot: a plea for disciplined electrode placement
Magazine article from: Journal of Electrocardiology; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...cardiac diagnosis, whether the serial tracings have been recorded in the same or in several different institutions. Willem Einthoven, early in the last century (Fig. 2), put his extremity electrodes as far from the cardiac generator as possible...
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History of cardiology at Baylor University Medical Center.
Magazine article from: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...flew their airplane and Professor Willem Einthoven developed the electrocardiogram...Center. DEVELOPMENTS IN CARDIOLOGY Einthoven, professor of physiology at the...second magnet in its vicinity. Einthoven constructed a new, more sensitive...
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Editorial: Nonarrhythmia clinical electrocardiography-can it be returned to clinical viability?
Magazine article from: Journal of Electrocardiology; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...wonderful man and scientist, Willem Einthoven, published the first electrocardiograms...Netherlands, sponsored by the Einthoven Foundation (1). In addition...the meaning of the leads. The 3 Einthoven leads, for example, were chosen...
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National Inventors Hall of Fame Announces 2008 Inductees
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 2/14/2008; 700+ words
; ...control -- John Charnley: Hip replacement surgery -- Willem Einthoven: Electrocardiograph -- Calvin Fuller, Gerald Pearson...many patients to enjoy a better quality of life. Willem Einthoven (1860 - 1927) Electrocardiograph Einthoven's...
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AANA JOURNAL COURSE: Update for nurse anesthetists Arrhythmia management devices and electromagnetic interference
Magazine article from: AANA Journal; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Purkinje system and its relationship to the atrioventricular node (AVN). This research laid the groundwork for Willem Einthoven's theories and descriptions of electrocardiography which earned him the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924.2 The...
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Overview of the ISCE ECG "Genome Project"
Magazine article from: Journal of Electrocardiology; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...cooperation for shared formatting and analysis. Key words: ECG, database, population studies. A century after Willem Einthoven first "sequenced" the electrocardiogram (ECG), the ISCE "genome" project was begun to explore mechanisms for...
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Stories of the century--Part III.
Magazine article from: Design News; 4/19/1999; ; 611 words
; ...are some of the other medical breakthroughs of the century: * The first practical electrocardiograph, invented by Willem Einthoven in 1900. * The first X-ray patent, awarded to William Coolidge in 1917. * The electroencephalograph, 1929...
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The human heart revisited.(ICC Prep)
Magazine article from: 24x7; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...prefer the German pronunciation--recording is basically unchanged from 1903 when it was first demonstrated by Willem Einthoven, a Dutch scientist who received the Nobel Prize in 1924 for his discovery of the mechanism of the ECG. But what...
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Birthdays and Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/21/1997; 700+ words
; ...writer, 1817; Amy Fay, pianist, 1844; Henri Rousseau, primitive painter, 1844; Emile Verhaeren, poet, 1855; Willem Einthoven, physiologist, 1860; Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer, 1878; Konstantin Georgeyevich Paustovsky, writer...
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Einthoven, Willem
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Einthoven, Willem ( b . Semarang, Java, 21 May 1860...28 September 1927) physiology . Einthoven ’ s father was municipal...Utrecht with their six children. There Willem Einthoven graduated from high school and registered...
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Willem Einthoven
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Willem Einthoven , 1860-1927, Dutch physiologist, b. Java, M.D. Univ. of Utrecht, 1885. He was professor at the Univ. of Leiden from...
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Julius, Willem Henri
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Julius, Willem Henri ( b. Zutphen, Netherlands, August...April 1925) solar physics. The son of Willem Julius and Maria Margareta Dumont, Julius...Einstein, Ehrenfest, Zeeman, Eykman and Einthoven. Julius studied the infrared radiation...
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Electrocardiogram (ECG)
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...Therefore, Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven (1860–1927) set...cardiac currents very accurately. Einthoven called his machine the electrocardiograph...electrocardiograms. Through clinical studies, Einthoven identified a number of heart problems...
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Diagnosis Technology
Book article from: American Decades
...heart, was invented in 1924. Willem Einthoven was responsible for this new invention...Unsatisfactory Instrumentation Einthoven at first attempted to measure...and various other instruments Einthoven built to aid his research. He...
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