Portraits as Topic
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

How did stroke become of interest to neurologists?: a slow 19th century saga.

30 Aug 2009 It was not until the first half of the 19th century that the vascular nature of strokes was readily recognized and accepted. Brain "softenings" were distinguished from hemorrhagic "apoplexy," but stroke etiology remained unstudied. The terms ... Read more...

Digital dental photography. Part 7: extra-oral set-ups.

6 Aug 2009 This part of our series specifically addresses extra-oral dental photography consisting of portraiture and dental laboratory pictures. Portraiture, which is achieved using three types of illumination, natural daylight, bi-lateral camera mounted ... Read more...

Straight talk with...James Ironside. [Interviewed by Jon Evans].

30 Jul 2009 Would you entrust your brain to a bank? Well, many people do after they die, and such brain banks-often funded by government agencies or disease charities-are essential for neuroscience research. They collect and store the healthy and diseased brain ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Portraits as Topic'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Cardioversion: past, present, and future. 18 Oct 2009
• Homage to Theodor Boveri (1862-1915): Boveri's theory of cancer as a disease of the chromosomes, and the landscape of genomic imbalances in human carcinomas. 29 Sep 2009
• Biosynthesis of mannophosphoinositides by Mycobacterium phlei. The family of dimannophosphoinositides. 1967. Biosynthesis of mannophosphoinositides by Mycobacterium phlei. Enzymatic acylation of the dimannophosphoinositides. 1968. 16 Sep 2009
• How did stroke become of interest to neurologists?: a slow 19th century saga. 30 Aug 2009
• Multienzyme complexes and hydrogen transfer: the work of Perry Frey. 19 Aug 2009
• Digital dental photography. Part 7: extra-oral set-ups. 6 Aug 2009
• A letter to Gordon. 30 Jul 2009
• Straight talk with...James Ironside. [Interviewed by Jon Evans]. 30 Jul 2009
• Perry Frey. 30 Jul 2009
• History of prostate cancer treatment. 29 Jul 2009
• An interview with Professor Ed Kollar by Pepa Echanove and Thimios A. Mitsiadis. 13 Jul 2009
• Born in Bradford: Madonna and child or? 7 Jul 2009
• Blood transfusion in World War I: the roles of Lawrence Bruce Robertson and Oswald Hope Robertson in the "most important medical advance of the war". 29 Jun 2009
• Portraits of caregivers of end-stage dementia patients receiving hospice care. 29 Jun 2009
• Artist's statement: my cadaver. 29 Jun 2009
• Félix Vicq d'Azyr (1748-1794). 18 Jun 2009
• Darwin and the scientific method. 13 Jun 2009
• Keep nibbling at the edges. 8 Jun 2009
• Getting along with a little help from my friends. 8 Jun 2009
• Debbie Fraser Askin: a pioneer in neonatal nursing. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Portraits as Topic'

Definition: Graphic representations, especially of the face, of real persons, usually posed, living or dead. (From Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II, p540, 1995)

Descriptor UI: D011173

Alternative terms: Portraits as Topic;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; psychology; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: K01.093.742;

History Note: 2008(1963)

Technical Notes: use only for portraits as a subject; for individual or group portraits in an article, use the Publication Type PORTRAITS