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U-90042

U-90042 is a sedative and hypnotic drug used in scientific research. It has similar effects to sedative-hypnotic benzodiazepine drugs, but is structurally distinct and so is classed as a nonbenzodiazepine hypnotic. U-90042 is a GABA agonist actin ...

Zomebazam

Zomebazam produced by Hoechst is a pyrazolodiazepinone derivative drug with anxiolytic properties. It is structurally related to razobazam and zometapine.

Acromioplasty

Acromioplasty is an arthroscopic surgical procedure of the acromion. Typically, it involves the removal of a small piece of the surface of the acromion bone, which is in contact with a tendon causing, by friction, damage to the tendon.

Bone cutter

A bone cutter is a surgical instrument used to cut or remove bones. In addition to surgery, they are also used in forensics, torture, and dismemberment. Types of medical bone cutters include: Sonic or sound cutting – The sonic cutter is still exp ...

Darrachs procedure

Darrachs procedure or distal ulna resection is a surgical technique for the surgical removal of the head of ulna. It is performed in cases of radial–ulnar joint pain and instability. The styloid process and muscular attachments are left intact. W ...

Evans-Jensen classification

Fixation (surgical)

Fixation in orthopedics is the process by which an injury is rendered immobile. This may be accomplished by internal fixation, using intramedullary rod, Kirschner wire or dynamic compression plate, or by external fixation, using a spanning extern ...

Harris Hip Score

The Harris Hip Score was developed by William H. Harris to assess the results of hip surgery or hip replacement. The standard evaluation applies to various hip disabilities and methods of treatment in adults. The original version of the score was ...

High tibial osteotomy

High tibial osteotomy is an orthopaedic surgical procedure which aims to correct a varus deformation with compartmental osteoarthritis. It is usually reserved for younger patients who are generally more active. Angular deformities were first desc ...

Hip prosthesis zones

After hip replacement, hip prosthesis zones are regions in the interface between prosthesis material and the surrounding bone. These are used as reference regions when describing for example complications including hip prosthesis loosening on med ...

Hip spica cast

A hip spica cast is a sort of orthopedic cast used to immobilize the hip or thigh. It is used to facilitate healing of injured hip joints or of fractured femurs. A hip Spica includes the trunk of the body and one or both legs. A hip Spica which c ...

Hubschers maneuver

The Hubscher maneuver is a method of evaluating the flexibility of a pes planus or flat foot type. The test is performed with the patient weight bearing, with the foot flat on the ground, while the clinician dorsiflexes the hallux and watches for ...

Kocher criteria

The Kocher criteria are a tool useful in the differentiation of septic arthritis from transient synovitis in the child with a painful hip. They are named for Mininder S. Kocher, an orthopaedic surgeon at Boston Childrens Hospital and Professor of ...

Mirels score

Mirels score is a tool useful in the management of bone tumors, by identifying those patients who would benefit from prophylactic fixation if they have a high enough risk of pathological fracture.

Pipkin classification

Seinsheimer classification

The Seinsheimer classification is a system of categorizing subtrochanteric hip fractures based on the fracture pattern of the proximal femoral shaft. The classification was developed by Frank Seinsheimer III in 1978. In the published work, fifty- ...

Sulcoplasty

Sulcoplasty is an orthopedic surgical procedure performed on a groove or indentation present on particular bones. In veterinary surgery it is often employed to remedy a displaced kneecap by deepening the trochlear sulcus, the groove on which the ...

Tension band wiring

A tension band wire is a form of orthopaedic internal fixation method used to convert distraction forces into compression forces, promoting bone healing. It is useful as a dynamic compression "in After fractures. Patella fracture. (Перелом надкол ...

Thompson and Epstein classification

Ode de Pougy

Ode de Pougy was the Abbess of Notre Dame aux Nonnains in Troyes, France, from 1264 to 1272. She is known for her efforts to forcibly prevent the construction of the Church of St Urbain, Troyes, which led to her excommunication.

Casbas Monastery

The Casbas Monastery, also known as the Monastery of Santa Maria de la Gloria, is in Casbas de Huesca, a municipality in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. A Bien de Interes Cultural, it was established in 1173 by Countess Oria de Pallars wit ...

Frauleinstift

Jomfrukloster

Walsrode Abbey

Walsrode Abbey in Walsrode, Germany, is one of the historic monasteries of Benedictine nuns on the Luneburg Heath in North Germany which are collectively known as the Lunekloster. Today it is a Lutheran womens convent that is maintained by the Ha ...

Parvatibai Athavale

Parvatibai Athavale was a close associate of Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve, one of Indias great social reformers. She made major contributions in social upliftment of women, particularly Hindu widows. Parvatibai Athavale was born in 1870 in Devrukh, a ...

Clara Guthrie d’Arcis

Clara Guthrie d’Arcis, was an American-born Swiss peace activist, feminist and international businesswoman. She was a founder and president of World Union of Women for International Concord and honorary treasurer of the Peace and Disarmament Comm ...

Celeste Kaplan

Celeste Strack Kaplan, was an American social worker, educator, and activist. From 1973 to 1982, she served as executive director for El Nido Family Services, and in 1983 helped found and served as the initial president of the Los Angeles Roundta ...

Donnis Thompson

Donnis Hazel Thompson was an American professor of health, physical education, and recreation at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and was the universitys first womens athletic director. At the University of Hawaii, she started the Rainbow Wahin ...

Merete Gerlach-Nielsen

Merete Gerlach-Nielsen was a Danish-born French-language academic, UNESCOs coordinating director for womens affairs, and one of the founders of Kvinfo, the Danish Centre for Research on Women and Gender. In 1998, she chose to adopt French citizen ...

Laura Zuñiga Caceres

Laura Zuñiga Caceres is a Honduran human rights activist. She is a member of the Public Council of popular and indigenous organizations of Honduras, and Hagamos Lo impossible. She appeared before the organization of American Commission on human r ...

Valambal

Valambal also known as Maniammal as an Indian social activist who fought against capitalism in Thanjavur district. Valambal was born in a Brahmin family of Thanjavur district. Married at a very young age, Valambal lost her husband in his youth. V ...

Aïssata Lam

Aïssata Lam is a Mauritanian womens rights activist. She is the co-founder and Chairman of the Youth chamber of Mauritania YCCM camera and has experience in microfinance and rural Finance. She is a graduate of the business school HEC Montreal and ...

Bunmi Dipo Salami

Bunmi Dipo-Salami is a Nigeria-born feminist, development strategist and social entrepreneur. She is the Chief Executive at PLEG Centre, a company that helps to enhance the capacity of leaders in Nigeria and across Africa through a multi-engageme ...

Laila Dogonyaro

Laila Dogonyaro was a Nigerian activist who was president of the National Council of Womens Societies from 1993 to 1995. In the early 1970s, she was Secretary of Jamiyyar Matan Arewa, a womens welfare organization.

Constance Singam

Constance Singam is a Singaporean activist and writer. Singams career as an activist started later in life, when she was widowed. She earned a degree and became active in womens rights group, AWARE, which she was president of for 3 separate terms ...

Ahlam Khudr

Ahlam Khudr is a Sudanese activist and nursery worker. Khudrs son was killed in a peaceful protest in 2013 as part of the 2011-13 protests in Sudan. Since then, she was an activist, calling itself the "mother of all martyrs." Active participation ...

Hayfa Sdiri

Hayfa Sdiri is a Tunisian entrepreneur, activist and blogger. In 2016, she founded the Centre for the crush-an online platform for future entrepreneurs. Sdiri is currently engaged in the study of applied Sciences, business administration and mana ...

D.C. Nine

The D.C. Nine were nine men and women, including seven who were priests and nuns, who engaged in a daytime protest against the Dow Chemical Company and its production of napalm and were charged with malicious destruction of property and unlawful ...

Retort (collective)

Retort is a community of about forty writers, teachers, artists, and activists, all self-styled opponents of capital and empire, which has been based for the past two decades in the San Francisco Bay Area. Retort is a collection of Antinomians. T ...

Mike Corley

Fairford Five

The Fairford Five was a group of five British peace protesters who broke into the RAF Fairford military air base in 2003 and disabled equipment in order to disrupt military operations at the start of the Iraq War. The group was given its name by ...

Julie Berman (transgender activist)

The murder of Canadian transgender rights activist Julie Berman occurred in downtown Toronto. Berman was found in a home with severe head injuries on December 22, 2019, she was brought to a hospital and pronounced dead. Colin Harnack was charged ...

Frida Schmidt

Frida Frederikke Caroline Christiane Schmidt was a Danish teacher, suffragist and a pioneering activist for the Danish Womens Society on the island of Funen. She helped to establish the Odense branches of both the Womens Suffrage Association in 1 ...

William Fox (pamphleteer)

William Fox was a radical abolitionist pamphleteer in late 18th-century Britain. Between 1773 and 1794 he ran a bookshop at 128 Holborn Hill in London, from 1782 he was in a business arrangement with the Particular Baptist Martha Gurney, who prin ...

James Webbe Tobin

James Webbe Tobin was an English abolitionist, the son of a plantation owner on Nevis. He was a political radical, and friend of leading literary men.

Philippe Lheureux

Naor Bitton

Naor Reuven Bitton is an Israeli political activist and community leader. He is a Fulbright Scholar and was one of the founders of the international advocacy organization Students Supporting Israel, that has dozens of pro-Israel groups across US ...

Sylwia Spurek

Dr. Sylwia Iwona Spurek is a Polish politician, lawyer, attorney-at-law, lecturer and Doctor of Law. For 2015 to 2019 she was a member of the Polish Ombudsman serves Polish Ombudsman at the time was Adam Bodnar. It was the spring part of the Prog ...

John Coburn House

The John Coburn House was the home of John P. Coburn, an African-American abolitionist who aided people on the Underground Railroad. The home is currently a private residence. It is on the Black Heritage Trail and its history is included in walki ...