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Adies Pupil
Adie's pupil Definition Adie's pupil is a neurological condition of unknown origin with an unusual, asymmetric presentation known as anisocoria, an inequality in the size of the pupils of the eyes. It is believed to be a result of damage to the nerve innervating a muscle of the eye known as the... Read more |
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Helen Adams Keller
Helen Adams Keller 1880-1968, American author and lecturer, blind and deaf from an undiagnosed illness at the age of two, b. Tuscumbia, Ala. In 1887 she was put under the charge of Anne Sullivan (see Macy, Anne Sullivan ), who was her teacher and companion until Sullivan's death in 1936. As a... Read more |
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pupillary reflex
pupillary reflex An alteration in the size of the pupil in response to a change in the light intensity. An increase in light intensity causes both pupils to contract (see iris) even if only one retina is directly stimulated. This is known as a consensual reflex. Conversely, a decrease in light... Read more |
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Richard Doyle
Richard Doyle 1824-83, English caricaturist, water colorist, and illustrator. He was the son and pupil of John Doyle, a popular caricaturist. His Journal (British Mus.), a book of sketches done at the age 15, shows his extraordinary precocity. He worked on the staff of Punch (1843-50), and drew... Read more |
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arts and crafts
arts and crafts term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. The chief influence behind this movement was... Read more |
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age grade and age set
age grade and age set differentiation of social role based on age, commonly found in small-scale societies of North America and East Africa. Age sets are a type of sodality (nonresidential groups that cut across kinship ties and thus promote broader social solidarity) of young men who usually... Read more |
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Paul of Samosata
Paul of Samosata , fl. 260-72, Syrian Christian theologian, heretical patriarch of Antioch. He was a friend and high official of Zenobia of Palmyra. Paul enounced a dynamic monarchianism , denying the three Persons of the Trinity. He taught that the Logos came to dwell in Jesus at baptism, but... Read more |
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Judith Leyster
Leyster, Judith (bapt. Haarlem, 28 July 1609; bur. Heemstede, 10 Feb. 1660). Dutch painter of genre scenes, portraits, and still-life. She was probably a pupil of Frans Hals in Haarlem, where she spent her early career. After her marriage to Jan Miense Molenaer in 1636 she moved to Amsterdam,... Read more |
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Guy Pene du Bois
Pène du Bois, Guy (1884–1958). American painter and writer on art. He was a pupil of Robert Henri, and as art critic or reporter on several newspapers he was a leading spokesman for the painters in Henri's circle. His own paintings concentrated on themes set in New York, particularly... Read more |
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