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artificial life support
artificial life support systems that use medical technology to aid, support, or replace a vital function of the body that has been seriously damaged. Such techniques include artificial pacemakers , internal defibrillators , dialysis machines (see kidney, artificial ), and respirators. The use of... Read more |
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living will
living will legal document in which a person expresses in advance his or her wishes concerning the use of artificial life support , to be referred to should the person be unable to communicate such wishes at the end of life. A living will usually goes into effect only when two physicians certify... Read more |
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Dorothy Osborne
Dorothy Osborne , later Lady Temple, 1627-95, English letter writer. The daughter of a royalist, she became engaged to Sir William Temple against the wishes of her family. Her letters to Temple, both through their long engagement and after their marriage in 1655, show her as a woman of wit,... Read more |
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George Calvert 1st Baron Baltimore
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore c.1580-1632, colonizer. In 1606 he became private secretary to Sir Robert Cecil, then a secretary of state. His advance was rapid. In 1609 he became a member of Parliament, in 1613 clerk of the privy council, and in 1619 secretary of state and a member of the... Read more |
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Genetic Disorders
Chapter 5Genetic Disorders We could wish that Read more |
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The Darling of the Gods
Darling of the Gods, The (1902), a play by David Belasco, John Luther Long. [Belasco Theatre, 182 perf.] Prince Saigon of Tosan ( Charles Walcot) has invited the outlawed Prince Kara ( Robert T. Haines) to a banquet because Kara saved Saigon's daughter, Princess Yo‐San ( Blanche Bates),... Read more |
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Coronations
coronations. Though the monarch succeeds automatically on the death of his predecessor, the coronation is a public avowal of his new position. Indeed, earlier tradition held that he was not really king until he had been crowned. Consequently, coronations followed accessions very swiftly,... Read more |
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John Comyn earl of Buchan
Buchan, John Comyn, earl of [S] (d. 1308). Buchan's career shows the difficulties faced by prominent Scots who wished to maintain the integrity of their country. Like the rest of his family he was a supporter of John Balliol, and hostile to the claims of Edward I. Yet he had at times to... Read more |
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Hermann Staudinger
STAUDINGER, HERMANN(b. Worms, Germany, 23 March 1881; d. Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 8 September 1965), organic and macromolecular chemistry.Staudinger studied at the Gymnasium in Worms. Then, after a brief period at the University of Halle, he transferred to the technical university at Darmstadt... Read more |
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Edmund Ironside
Edmund Ironside d. 1016, king of the English (1016), son of Æthelred the Unready. Contrary to the wishes of his father, he married (1015) the widow of Siferth, a Danish thane, and was accepted as ruler of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw . When Canute invaded England in 1015, Emund led the... Read more |
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