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	eponyms...(sorry for some unclear characters!) Nagging Q Forums PLAB USMLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A sign of cancer in the pelvis of the kidney (pelvis renalis.
		A clinical sign in FRACTURE of the neck of the femur in which the trochanter rides up and relaxes the fascia lata so that a finger can be sunk deeply between the great trochanter and the iliac crest.
		A trias of clinical signs of rupture of the spleen in abdominal trauma
	www.aipge.com /postt7155.html (1826 words)

	Sir William Richard Gowers (www.whonamedit.com)
		Gowers was the inventor of the haemoglobinometer in 1878.
		Gowers was educated at Christchurch School, Oxford, and was an apprentice to Dr. Simpson, a medical practitioner in Coggeshall, Essex.
		Gowers was knighted in 1897, during the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/1182.html (1418 words)

	Bruce Gowers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The band asked him to get their Queen II album cover to come to life.
		Since then Gowers was established as an important director for this medium.
		Gowers is also the director of American Idol and Whose Line Is It Anyway?
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bruce_Gowers (97 words)

	The Observer \| Business \| Out of the red and into the pink
		Gowers is also fighting a multi-million-pound legal action and battling a perception in some quarters that the paper's hard-won reputation for accuracy has been lost in the rush to break scoops.
		That's the pond they're fishing in,' Gowers says, adding that the difference between the titles is that the Journal can afford to step back from its overseas commitments, whereas the FT cannot.
		Gowers says there will be more, but denies it is a precursor to a free afternoon edition of the FT in the capital.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /business/story/0,,1499300,00.html (1735 words)

	Epilepsy Fdn.-Gowers Researchers: Where Are They Now?
		The William R. Gowers Clinical Research Fellowship is awarded annually to a physician-scientist who is embarking on a career in academic clinical medicine and who wishes to undertake a specific project in epilepsy research.
		This article takes a look into the research paths of two Gowers fellows, the first recipient in 1986 and a more recent recipient in 2001, to learn how the Gowers award has shaped their career paths and deepened their understanding of epilepsy.
		The William R. Gowers Clinical Research Fellowship is named in honor of William R. Gowers, a British physician who was one of a small group of brilliant neurologists who, towards the end of the nineteenth century, led the way to a new understanding of the brain and epilepsy.
	www.epilepsyfoundation.org /epilepsyusa/gowers.cfm (1221 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Columnists \| A man who thinks pink
		Gowers is the fifth editor in half a century and, at 43, is the youngest since Sir Gordon Newton in 1949.
		Her appointment is a sign of the FT's continuing commitment to on-line journalism and its determination to integrate paper and website.
		Gowers is also keen to break down the distinction between journalists who write for the paper and those who write for the web.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Columnists/Column/0,5673,560817,00.html (1359 words)

	Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The symptoms and signs of the disease depend upon the muscles first involved by the disease and upon its rate of progression.
		Climbing up the legs on rising from the floor (Gowers' sign) is characteristic but not specific, as it occurs in any disorder in which pelvic girdle muscles are weak.
		Nevertheless, early symptoms and signs (even though readily recognizable to parents who may have seen them in an older child) are very difficult for the doctor to detect.
	www.eamg-med.com /members/encyclopedia/25/25_2.shtml (4804 words)

	Parent Support for Children with Challenges - Definitions - G (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One knee lower than the other when the child is supine on a Hat surface and the knees are flexed to 90 degrees; this sign occurs with hip dislocation.
		A nonspecific sign of neurological integrity in a newborn.
		The stimulus of squeezing the calf produces the response of toe dorsiflexion (upgoing movement of the toes); this reflex is a variant of the Babinski sign as an index of pyramidal tract involvement.
	www.childrenwithchallenges.net /definitions/G.html (5336 words)

	Patrick Gowers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Patrick Gowers (born May 5, 1936, London, United Kingdom) is a British composer of film scores.
		His concert music includes works written for the guitarrist John Williams: Chamber Concerto for Guitar and the Rhapsody for Guitar, Electric Guitars and Electric Organ.
		He is the grandson of British civil servant Sir Ernest Gowers and the father of mathematician Timothy Gowers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patrick_Gowers (112 words)

	Case Based Pediatrics Chapter
		A positive sign is seen when a child climbs up on his thighs in order to extend his hips and push up his trunk when going from a sitting to standing position.
		Another differentiating sign is the presence of minipolymyoclonus, which is a fine tremor in the outstretched hands, which is present in the SMA's but absent in the muscular dystrophies (7).
		The Gowers' maneuver is seen when a child climbs up on his thighs with his hands when going from a sitting to standing position.
	www.hawaii.edu /medicine/pediatrics/pedtext/s18c14.html (2686 words)

	Digest Ezine International
		Rose-Mary Gower's daughter Adrienne saw one night the spectral form of a monk shuffling about at the bottom of her bed.
		He saw a monk kneeling by a river, his hands raised in self-defence; a swordsman on horseback; the glint of steel; frantic and vain efforts to ward off the blows.
		Carved into the lintel of the Gowers' cottage is the date 1610.They contacted a local archivist who couldn't find a nearby monastic settlement.
	www.angelfire.com /zine/digest/di3.html (725 words)

	Selected Abstracts that will be presented on the Annual Meeting of American Academy of Neurology
		All patients signed informed consent and agreed to blood withdrawal and determination of number of repeats by means of a non radioactive PCR and haplotypes studies.
		All the individuals over 20 years old, with a known family diagnosis, with at least one member with intranuclear filaments found by electron microscopy were included in the study.
		Eyelid ptosis was the most commom sign, 100%, while dysphagia was found in 87% of patients.
	www.distrofiamuscular.net /resumos8.htm (9188 words)

	The Red Ink at Pearson's Pink Paper
		Pearson's (PSO) announcement on Nov. 3 that Andrew Gowers, editor of the Financial Times, was stepping down over "strategic differences between himself and Pearson" came as a shock to the FT newsroom.
		Gowers is also said to have been frustrated by frequent changes of direction from management.
		Gowers's abrupt exit may be a sign of a tougher approach at FT's parent company, which has struggled in recent years under its American-born chief executive.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/nov2005/nf2005114_2170_db016.htm?campaign_id=rss_topStories (1010 words)

	The Observer \| Business \| Neil versus Gowers: this time it's personal ...
		A bitter row has erupted between Andrew Neil, the Barclay brothers' publisher and BBC broadcaster, and Andrew Gowers, editor of the Financial Times, over the newspaper's reporting of business news stories.
		Neil, who has been critical of the FT's accuracy in breaking news, went on the offensive after a report on Friday that Constellation, a US drinks consortium, was about to bid £7.5 billion for Britain's Allied Domecq.
		Gowers added: 'Andrew should wake up and smell the coffee of 24 hour rolling news.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /business/story/0,6903,1509540,00.html (363 words)

	Financial Times Editor Quits Over Differences With Owner - New York Times
		Gowers, 48, and a lack of confidence in the paper's editorial direction, rather than a dispute over any one issue.
		Advertising, which fell sharply after the bursting of the dot-com bubble, has shown signs of a turnaround, rising 6 percent in the first nine months of this year, Pearson said this week.
		A picture in Business Day yesterday with an article about the resignation of Andrew Gowers as the editor of The Financial Times was published in error.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/11/04/business/04paper.html?ex=1288760400&en=d81d5fbe4904f866&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (645 words)

	The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics
		Their ability to walk, Gowers sign and pseudohypertrophy of gastrocnemius muscle, functioning of the other muscles, heart rate and murmurs, and respiratory functions were evaluated in particular by the same physicians of our department.
		There was an 11-year-old boy with BMD who had exon 45-48 deletion, suffering from muscle cramps after running and manifest gastrocnemius pseudohypertrophy without Gowers sign with myoglobinuria; two of his uncles (42 and 47 years old) also had similar problems and the same deleted gene regions.
		It is difficult to establish genotype- phenotype correlations, particularly regarding the deletions at the 5' region of the gene, but attempts for correlations should be made based on detailed clinical findings with the type of mutations to have better follow-up protocols.
	tjp.dergisi.org /text.php3?id=191 (2891 words)

	Gowers' sign -- PEARCE 68 (2): 149 -- Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
		Gowers' sign -- PEARCE 68 (2): 149 -- Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
		Sir William Richard Gowers (1845-1915) is a name hallowed in the minds of most neurologists as one of the great Victorian
		Gowers' phenomenon, Gowers' distal myopathy, Gowers' solution in the treatment of migraine, Gowers' anterior spinocerebellar
	jnnp.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/68/2/149 (671 words)

	THE MERCK MANUAL, Sec. 14, Ch. 165, Neurologic Approach To The Patient
		A complaint of muscle weakness should be characterized precisely by describing the exact location, time of occurrence, precipitating and ameliorating factors, and associated symptoms and signs.
		A patient with pelvic girdle weakness characteristically arises from the supine position by turning prone, kneeling, and slowly pushing erect by using his hands to climb up his thighs (Gowers' sign).
		The plantar response has several forms: Quick voluntary withdrawal must be distinguished from Babinski's sign (extension of the great toe with fanning of the other toes, often with flexion of the knee and hip), which is slower.
	www.merck.com /mrkshared/mmanual/section14/chapter165/165c.jsp (2545 words)

	FT.com / International economy / Oil for food - Lionel Barber appointed FT editor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lionel Barber has been appointed editor of the Financial Times, succeeding Andrew Gowers, who edited the FT for the past four years.
		Marjorie Scardino, chief executive of Pearson, the FT's owner, said Mr Gowers was stepping down because of strategic differences with Pearson, but paid tribute to his leadership “during the toughest years on record for business newspapers.”
		Mr Gowers became editor in September 2001 after launching FT Deutschland, the FT's German-language sister paper.
	news.ft.com /cms/s/8e1d3e64-4c5c-11da-89df-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=38fc379a-084c-11da-97a6-00000e2511c8.html (502 words)

	Early Cheswick Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There is no sign of one on Warings land where Banister's Farm is shown in 1840, nor of any habitation at Light Hall.
		'Thomas Gower for 2 mease with two motts and a feylde with a crofte oaulde Colvarfeyldus sumtyme wes called Broughtons Cheswyke that lies bytwyne Cheswyke Greyn and Warings Chessewyke and a grounde of Warings caulda Buxstons.
		And Thomas Waryng for a meysse and three croftus lyyng togedur in length bytweyn Cheswyke Greyn and a feld cauld Waryngs Cheswyke and in breydth bytwene the mottus of Gowers in Cheswyke called the Cheswyke Mottus and a ground of Gowers called Tymcokus'.
	www.solihull-online.com /1500.htm (278 words)

	Motor > Abnormal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hyperreflexia is one of the signs of a UMN lesion.
		Hyperreflexia is one of the signs of the UMN syndrome.
		This patient has proximal pelvic girdle weakness which is demonstrated by his using his hands to climb the wall and then pushing on his thighs to get his trunk upright.
	medstat.med.utah.edu /neurologicexam/html/motor_abnormal.html (593 words)

	The Gowers
		We are Dan and Shana Gower and our two wonderful boys, Joshua (2) and Gabriel (almost 1).
		We also welcome you to sign up to receive our monthly newsletter via email.
		I (Dan) will be traveling to the Dominican Republic on March 6th to investigate living arrangements and ministry opportunities in preparation for our move there later this year.
	www.thegowers.com (211 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Media
		Andrew Gowers, editor of the 'Financial Times', tells Ian Burrell how the venerable newspaper is coming to a hand-held personal organiser near you
		In the foyer of the Financial Times building on the approach to London's Southwark Bridge is displayed a copy of the first edition of the newspaper, printed in 1888 with the strap-line "The Friend of the Honest Financier and the Respectable Broker".
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	news.independent.co.uk /media/article315177.ece (233 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		The fun begins with the famous theme, a sturdy and fertile melody that Gowers masterfully exploits in innumerable ways to enhance, enliven, and illustrate scenes or to suggest a person's character or mood.
		In keeping with the fact that the violin was Holmes' own instrument, solo violin music plays a significant role in the series, exemplified in what may be the musical highlight of all of the episodes, the plaintive and poignant reflection on "The Death of Sherlock Holmes".
		There are many more examples of Gowers' creative versatility--too many to list here; but hearing this music again makes you appreciate all the more what can result when first rate artists are allowed to fully collaborate on a worthy project.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=902 (338 words)

	U.K. to probe 'patent thickets' \| CNET News.com
		Speaking at a seminar in London on Thursday, Andrew Gowers acknowledged concerns that the present system may hamper competition.
		Gowers, a former editor of the Financial Times, was chosen by the government late last year to lead an independent review into intellectual-property rights in the U.K. Last year, the European Commission came close to approving a directive that would have made pure software applications patentable across Europe.
		Although the directive was eventually abandoned, campaigners fear that similar legislation could be introduced in the future.
	news.com.com /2100-1014_3-6045054.html (761 words)

	Wotton-under-Edge Community Site - The Wotton Discussion Board
		John Gowers used to own the pet/fresh fish shop at the top of town untill he retired.
		This will email the offending message to the site administrator and a decision will be made whether to delete it or not.
		You may post messages here after you have signed in.
	wotton-under-edge.org /topicview?id=625 (622 words)

	buysoundtrax.com - Sherlock Holmes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The series is still being shown all over the world and the music from it is only available on this hard-to-find CD.....Patrick Gowers, the composer
		SIGN OF FOUR, THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES and THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES to comprise the tracks featured on this CD.
		The music will remind listeners of the works of such classic composers as Ennio Morricone, Miklos Rozsa, Bruce Broughton and John Williams.
	www.buysoundtrax.com /sherlock_holmes.html (130 words)

	Foster Kennedy Syndrome - Patient UK
		However, some people find that they add depth to the articles found in the other sections of this website which are written for non-medical people.
		This rare sign consists of unilateral ipsilateral optic atrophy (produced by direct pressure on the nerve) and contralateral papilloedema (secondary to raised ICP).
		Kennedy F; Retrobulbar neuritis as an exact diagnostic sign of certain tumors and abscesses in the frontal lobe.
	www.patient.co.uk /showdoc/40001224 (199 words)

	Ernest Gowers - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sir Ernest Gowers (1880 - 1966) was a British civil servant, now best known for work on style guides for the writing of the English language.
		His own The Complete Plain Words was published in 1954, expanding Plain Words, a guide to the use of English from 1948.
		He was the grandfather of composer Patrick Gowers and greatgrandfather of mathematician and Fields Medallist Tim Gowers.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Ernest_Gowers (146 words)

	Muscular Dystrophy
		The main feature in muscular dystrophies is muscle weakness and wasting.
		Different dystrophies show variable symptoms, signs and rate of progression. In some types, skeletal deformities and contractures are common (3).
		DMD is the commonest and most serious form of the dystrphies (1).
	www.angelfire.com /ky/IBMS/md.html (441 words)

	Dorlands Medical Dictionary
		(fə-nom´ə-non) pl. phenom´ena Any observable occurrence or fact; see also sign and symptom.
		extension of all the fingers or of the thumb and index finger, on pressure against the pisiform bone; called also Gordon's sign.
		Called also Holmes' or Holmes-Stewart p., Holmes' sign, and Stewart-Holmes sign.
	www.mercksource.com /pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcommonzSzdorlandszSzdorlandzSzdmd_p_17zPzhtm (3900 words)

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