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  Bowman's capsule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bowmans Capsule is a blind sac at the beginning of a the tubular component of a nephron in the mammalian kidney.
Fluids from blood in the glomerulus are collected in the Bowman's capsule (i.e., glomerular filtrate) and further processed along the nephron to form urine.
The process of filtration of the blood in the Bowman's capsule is ultra-filtration or glomerular filtration, the normal rate of glomerular filtration is 125 ml/min, equivalent to 10x the blood volume daily.
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 William Bowman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (July 20, 1816 - March 29, 1892) was a British surgeon, histologist and anatomist.
Born in Nantwich, Cheshire, third son of a banker and amateur botanist/geologist, Bowman attended Hazelwood School near Birmingham from 1826.
Thomas, K.B. The manuscripts of Sir William Bowman.
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William R. Watson, grandfather of him whose name initiates this article, was a resident of the historic old State of Virginia until his removal to Indiana, where he became a pioneer settler in Clinton County, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives.
WILLIAM D. On July 19, 1894, the Town of Chalmers and Big Creek Township was shocked by the news that William D. Wilson had been killed by a stroke of lightning while at work in the meadow of Thomas J. Hoshour.
William Woods died in 1839 at the age of fifty-five and was buried in the Barr Cemetery.
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 The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (Sa-Sl)
Sir George Gabriel Stokes was an Irish mathematician and physicist to whom is due the modern theory of viscuous fluids and the discovery that rays beyond the violet end of the spectrum produce flourescence in certain substances.
Sir Richard Steele was an Irish author, founder, editor and, with Addison, chief contributor of The Tatler and The Spectator.
Sir William Bowman was an English anatomist and surgeon.
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 bowman - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Bowman, Isaiah (1878-1950), American geographer, born in Waterloo, Ontario.
Bowman, Scotty, born in 1933, Canadian professional ice hockey coach, the first coach in National Hockey League (NHL) history to win 1,000 games.
Bowman, Sir William (1816-1892), British physician, known in England as the father of histological anatomy and ophthalmic surgery.
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 Bowman Journal of George Rogers Clark
It was kept by Joseph Bowman, one of the captains in the expedition, and is referred to by Mr.
Captain Williams, with two men, went to look for a passage, and were discovered by two men in a canoe, but could not fetch them to.
Sir-In order to save yourself from the impending storm that now threatens you I order you to surrender yourself, with all your garrison, stores, etc., etc., etc. For, if I am obliged to storm, you may depend on such treatment as is justly due to a murderer.
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 ANCIENT MURRAY GENEALOGY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Sir Robert Gordon states the Earl John died in 1460 and was buried in the chapel of St. Andrew’s at Golspie in Sutherland.
Sir William had by his wife, Sir Malcolm who succeeded him in the barony of Tullibardine which continues in the same name and family, by a direct line of heirs male being ratified and confirmed by charters from several succeeding kings.
Sir William was one of the guardians of the young king and keeper of the castle at Stirling.
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 George Rogers Clark - siblings
William Clark, the youngest brother of George Rogers Clark, was born in Caroline county, Virginia, August 1, 1770.
William Clark, the subject of the present sketch, long survived the others and from that cause, as well as the prominence he subsequently attained, matters pertaining to the other two have, more or less, been attributed to him.
William Clark, the surveyor-in-chief of Clark's Grant, and one of the trustees of Clarksville, who spent much of his time at that place, a sketch of whom has already been given, was not the William Clark who was governor of Missouri territory, but his cousin.
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 Sir William de Miggeley, knight.
William the Conqueror divided such parts of England as did not belong to the Church and were not reserved for himself into seven hundred baronies or great fiefs, which he bestowed upon his particular friends, and on those who had most assisted him in his work of conquest.
William de Miggeley may have been one of the judges at the trial, certainly John de Warrene was.
William may have provided his duty at this battle, which as a land owner or son of a land owner, would have been his due to the king.
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 The Medical School
William Sands Cox (1801-1875) had partly trained in Birmingham, having been articled to his father, in Paris and at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, London, where he obtained his MRCS in 1824, but had found the medical scene in London most distasteful.
The Medical School now under the leadership of Sir Arthur Thomson (or "AP" as he was known), Dean from 1950-1959, with the support of another clinician turned administrator, Sir Robert Aitken as Vice-Chancellor, continued to advance its reputation and become a world leader in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and medical research.
At the end of 2001 ex-Birmingham student, Sir Paul Nurse, former Director-General Cancer Research UK and President of Rockerfeller University, New York, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, for his work on the way cells reproduce, with the aim of devising a way to halt the growth of cancer.
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 Sir Thomas Erpyngham (1357-1428)
Sir Thomas was placed in charge of execution of two of the rebels Sir Thomas Blount and Sir Benedict Cely which was carried out with the full barbarity permitted to him by law.
Sir Thomas is said to have procured the Bishops release from prison.
In 1418 Sir Thomas was at the siege of Rouen with his nephew(s) Sir William Phelip and Walter Clopton (sable, a bend argent cotised or.) the arms suggest a possible relationship with Joan Clopton, Sir Thomas’s first wife.
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His name is associated with glands in the olfactory mucosa, the capsule of the renal glomerulus, and a layer in the cornea.
The Holmes-Adie pupil, caused by death of neurons in the ciliary ganglion, is enlarged and reacts slowly to light.
Lewis, Sir Thomas (1881-1945) British physician noted for studies of human physiology, especially as related to the heart and blood vessels, and of referred pain.
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 ORGAN SYSTEMS
William of Salceto (1210-1280), a surgeon, in his book 'In Scientia Medicinalis', described dropsy with contracted kidneys, perhaps an early description of chronic nephritis.
Sir William Bowman (1816 -1892), a great Briish ophthalmologist, contributed to the understanding of the structure and the function of the kidney, In 1842, he described the continuity of the glomerular capsular space with the adjoining tubules.
Sir William Osler (1849-1919) has been aptly described as "the world's greatest doctor".
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 Victorian Art in Britain - Walter Ouless
It is to men, however, that his art has been chiefly applied, and his industry in that direction may be gauged by the fact that that nearly one hundred and thirty examples have been seen on the Academy walls in the last twenty-five years.
Charles Darwin, John Bright, Cardinals Newman and Manning, Lord Roberts, J E Hodgson RA., Sir George Scharf, the Duke of Rutland (who was Lird John Manners at the time, 1882), are among the best of his efforts, though there is little to gain in mentioning any in particular where all are good.
Until 1928 when he was represented by a portrait of Sir Arthur Keith, Ouless, though he had ceased to take an active part in its affairs, sent at least one picture each yearly to the exhibition of the Royal Academy.
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 Histological Eponyms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Bowman's Capsule - surrounding the glomerulus in the kidney.
Bowman's Glands - glands in the olfactory mucous membrane.
Much of Bowman's best anatomical work is to be found in Robert Todd's Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology.
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 Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies / IALS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies specialises in teaching and research in the field of legislative drafting and law reform.
It seeks to spread the Sir William Dale ideas for simple, precise and accurate legislative texts which are accessible to lawyers and non-lawyers alike in all jurisdictions.
The first Sir William Dale Memorial lecture took place on Monday, 2 July 2001.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
The family moved to Joliet in 1851, and when William was 11 his father died, leaving the family in poor circumstances.
In the early spring of 1885 he was not at the end of track in the Rockies when the company’s inability to pay its contractors, and rumours of impending bankruptcy, resulted in a bitter strike.
Hill bore primary responsibility, was an attempt to guard against the diversion of Canadian traffic to the Northern Pacific Railroad, then a dangerous rival both of the CPR and of the Great Northern system, which Hill and other members of the CPR syndicate were building in the American northwest.
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 Littleton Family of Accomack Co
Nathaniel Littleton, son of Sir Edward and Mary Walter Littleton of Hensley, Shropshire, England, was the progenitor of the Littletons of Virginia.
Sir Thomas Littleton II married Ann Botteaux, daughter and heiress of John Bottreaux of Abbot's Salford, Warwickshire.
Their second son, Sir Edward Littleton of Henley of county Salop, was Chief Justice of North Wales, who married Mary Walter, daughter of Sir Edward Walter of Ludlow, county Salop, fathered eight sons, and also died in 1621.
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 People and Peoples (A-C)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Sir Henry Bessemer was born in 1813, dying in 1898.
William Henry Beveridge was the first baron beveridge.
William Bligh was the commander of the ship "Bounty" when the crew mutinied in the South Seas.
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 Rare Books - Records #51 - 100   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The report is addressed to William II of the Netherlands and concerns the debilitating effects of ophthalmia in the royal military forces.
Lectures on the parts concerned in the operations on the globe, and on the structure of the retina, delivered at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, June 1847.
Boyle recognized that the site of the cataract is in the optic lens, and he included a number of case histories to substantiate his findings.
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 Sharon Schulze - Bride of the Tower
Sir William Bowman glanced back at the big fl gelding lagging along behind him.
Yet thanks to Sir Richard Belleville's overcautious nature, Will now found himself lost in Nottingham forest with an injured mount instead of lodged comfortably at the next keep along his way, where he'd planned to spend the night.
And in their haste to see Will escorted on his way, it seemed Sir Richard's men had set Will upon the wrong path through the forest, for 'twas clear this route had seen little traffic of late.
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 Warren Tay (www.whonamedit.com)
He was later appointed senior surgeon to the hospital at a time when John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911) was senior physician, and he had to treat surgically all those complicated brain cases that only Jackson, at that time, could diagnose.
When Sir William Bowman (1816-1892) retired from Moorfields in 1877 Tay was appointed his successor.
He was a founding member of the Ophthalmological Society, and in volume one of its transactions he reported his studies from the year 1881 of a child with neurological dysfunction, and described "symmetrical changes in the region of the yellow spot in each eye of an infant".
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 Capsulitis -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A third time capsule, the KEO satellite, will be launched in 2006, carrying individual messages from Earth's inhabitants addressed to earthlings around the year 52,000, when Keo will return to Earth.
Any proteins under ~daltons in size can pass freely through the membrane, although there is some extra hindrance for negatively charged molecules due to the negative charge of the basement membrane and the podocytes.
The internal capsule is an area of white matter in the brain that separates the caudate nucleus and the thalamus from the lenticular nucleus.
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 Glasgow University Archive Services - About Us - Publications - Dunaskin News - March 2003 - Sir William Macewen ...
Sir William Macewen (1848-1924) And The Glasgow Royal Infirmary Collection Of Clinical Photographs
According to Mr Patterson, however, there was “little evidence which would point towards Pringle having much to do with their production.” Pringle may have been one of the last to use the collection at the GRI, and he augmented the collection with photographs of his patients, as well as signed paintings and drawings.
Dr John A.C. (Jack) Macewen (1874-1944) was the eldest son of Sir William Macewen, and he has provided many written clues to his father’s photographic practice.
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 Bowman sir william Bowman sir william Bowman sir william   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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 Allen Thomson (www.whonamedit.com)
With his friend William Sharpey (1802-1880) he gave courses in anatomy and physiology during the years 1831-1836, until Sharpey in 1836 was called to University College, London, as professor of physiology.
Thomson subsequently went on a scientific journey to the Continent, and upon his return in 1839 became professor of anatomy at the Marishal College and the University of Aberdeen.
Thomson was a collaborator in Robert Bentley Todd (1809-1860) and Sir William Bowman’s (1816-1892), Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology (5 volumes, London 1836-1842) for which he prepared the articles Circulation, Generation, and Ovum.
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 The Well 16 - The Gold Scales
The two, Brenda James and William Rubinstein, claim the evidence is difficult to ignore.
He told he had been William Shakespeare (no initiations given by that one, maybe no superb plays either, if a Sir Henry Neville with the needed background wrote them with Shakespeare as his straw man).
He also said he had been the Hindu bowman Arjuna who had to share his wife with his four brothers, but who is not known to have been the guru of anyone either.
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 "B" Famous People
Baikie, William Balfour (1825-64) Explorer, naturalist, and linguist, born in Kirkwall, Orkney Is...
Beaverbrook (of Beaverbrook and of Cherkley), (William) Max(well) Aitken, Baron (1879-1964) Politician and newspaper magnate, born in Maple, Ontario, SE Canada.
Biffen, Sir Rowland Harry (1874-1949) Botanist and geneticist, born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire...
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 Border Wars of the American Revolution by William L. Stone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Parentage of Joseph Brant.-Extracts from Sir William Johnson's Journal.-Miss Molly Brant.-Joseph, goes to Battle at the Age of 13.
The first Blood of the Revolution.-Loyalists in the Valley of the Mohawk.-Influence of Sir William Johnson.-His Death.-Colonel Guy Johnson.-Walter Butler.-Meeting of the Whigs in Palatine.-Meet ing of the General.
Movement of Sir Henry Clinton to relieve Burgoyne.-Capture of Forts Clinton and Montgomery.-Burning of Esopus.-Of Danbury.-Death of General Wooster.-Massacre at Paoli.- Battle of Germantown.- Horrible Murder of Captain Dietz's Family by Tories and Indians.- Removal of Lady Johnson.-Attempts to capture Mr.
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