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Hamilton Naki (26 June 1926 – 29 May 2005) was a laboratory assistant to cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard in South Africa.He was recognised for his surgical skills and for his ability to teach medical students and physicians such skills despite not having received a formal medical education, and took a leading role in organ transplant research on animals.
Christiaan Barnard. Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation. [ 1][ 2] On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall into the chest of 54-year-old Louis Washkansky who ...
denoting a white or pale color Latin albus, white albino, tunica albica: alge(si)-pain: Greek ἄλγος (álgos) analgesic-algia, alg(i)o-pain Greek myalgia: all-denoting something as different, or as an addition Greek ἄλλος (állos), another, other alloantigen, allopathy: ambi-denoting something as positioned on both sides; describing ...
James McCune Smith. James McCune Smith (April 18, 1813 – November 17, 1865) was an American physician, apothecary, abolitionist and author. He was the first African American to earn a medical degree. His M.D. was awarded by the University of Glasgow in Glasgow, Scotland. After his return to the United States, he also became the first African ...
Polycephaly. Polycephaly is the condition of having more than one head. The term is derived from the Greek stems poly (Greek: "πολύ") meaning "many" and kephalē (Greek: "κεφαλή") meaning "head". A polycephalic organism may be thought of as one being with a supernumerary body part, or as two or more beings with a shared body.
Alleged flag of Blackbeard. Use. Proportion. 3×2. Design. A black banner with a horned skeleton holding an hourglass in his right hand and a spear in his left, using the spear to poke at a red heart dripping three red drops of blood. The purported flag of Blackbeard, consisting of a horned skeleton using a spear to pierce a bleeding heart, is ...
Carpenter syndrome. Carpenter syndrome, also called acrocephalopolysyndactyly type II, [ 1] is an extremely rare autosomal recessive [ 2] congenital disorder characterized by craniofacial malformations, obesity, syndactyly, and polydactyly. [ 2] Acrocephalopolysyndactyly is a variation of acrocephalosyndactyly that presents with polydactyly.
The White Queen theorizes that the movie's Red Queen has a tumor pressing against her brain, explaining both her large head and her deranged behaviour. Most of her characteristics are taken from the Queen of Hearts including: A quickness to anger, including the famous phrase "Off with his/her/their/your head!"