Jackson's law
Loss of mental functions due to disease retraces in reverse order its evolutionary development.
Jackson's membrane
A thin vascular membrane or veil-like adhesion, covering the anterior surface of the ascending colon from the caecum to (more...)
Jackson's rule
After an epileptic attack, simple and quasiautomatic functions are less affected and more rapidly recovered than the mor (more...)
Jackson's sign
<clinical sign> During quiet respiration the movement of the paralysed side of the chest may be greater than that (more...)
jackstone bladder calculus
<radiology> Spiculated calculus in urinary bladder, calcium oxalate monohydrate
jackstraw
1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence.
jackwood
Wood of the jack (Artocarpus integrifolia), used in cabinetwork.
jacobaean lily
<botany> A bulbous plant (Amaryllis, or Sprekelia, formosissima) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, (more...)
Jacobaeus, Hans
<person> Swedish surgeon, 1879-1937.
Jacobaeus operation
An obsolete term for pleurolysis.
