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James Rutherford Morison James Rutherford Morison. James Rutherford Morison (10 October 1853, Hutton Henry County Durham, England – 9 January 1939, Newcastle upon Tyne, England) was a British surgeon. [1] In 1874, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh, and as a young man was an assistant and "surgical dresser" to Joseph Lister (1827 ...
A physical exam should be performed prior to the operation and the incision should be chosen based on the point of maximal tenderness to palpation. [9] These incisions are placed for appendectomy: McBurney's incision, also known as grid iron incision; Lanz incision; Rutherford Morison incision; Paramedian incision
The modified Gibson incision allows proper access to the small bowel and pelvic organs and limited access to omentum. It is also possible to have tactile assessment of large bowel and subdiaphragmatic surfaces using this incision. This incision is preferred for lymph node dissection, as extra peritoneal approach of pelvic sidewall is possible.
In 1906, the greater omentum was described as the "abdominal policeman" by the surgeon James Rutherford Morrison. [12] This is due to its immunological function, whereby omental tissue seems to "surveil" the abdomen for infection and cover areas of infection when found - walling it off with immunologically active tissue.
Bachmann's bundle – Jean George Bachmann (1877–1959), German-American physiologist; Balbiani bodies – Édouard-Gérard Balbiani; Bartholin's gland – Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655–1738), Danish anatomist
The Rutherford County Board of Education will consider whether to pull seven books from school libraries during a meeting scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 19, 2024) at the district ...
Ahead of Banned Book Week, the Rutherford County Board of Education voted to remove six books from public school libraries including Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and "Wicked."
Rutherford concludes that genetics cannot be used to define race. Francis Galton and his contribution to the development of eugenics is also examined. The Human Genome Project revealed that humans only have about 20,000 genes, far fewer than scientists expected, and ended up posing more questions than it answered.