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Corrigan|ˈkɒrɪgən|
The name of a Dublin physician, Sir Dominic John Corrigan (1802–80), used in the possessive in Corrigan's button, Corrigan's cirrhosis, etc. (see quots.).
1886Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. II. 86/1 The arteries seem to swell and elongate, and then suddenly shorten again. This is the so-called Corrigan's or piston pulse. 1887Ibid. V. 196/2 Corrigan's pulse, the peculiar ‘jerking’, ‘splashing’, ‘collapsing’, or ‘water-hammer’ pulse of aortic regurgitation. Ibid., Corrigan's button, a firing-iron consisting of a button of iron..fastened in a wooden handle by a rod two inches long. 1890Billings Med. Dict., Corrigan's cautery, button cautery. Corrigan's disease, insufficiency of aortic valves. 1906Practitioner Dec. 730 The bronchial tubes become dilated, until at length the whole of one lung consists of dilated tubes and fibroid tissue, in other words, Corrigan's cirrhosis. 1953Faber Med. Dict. 104/1 C[orrigan]'s pulse, the ‘water-hammer pulse’ of aortic insufficiency. C.'s respiration, slow respiration of the cerebral type. C.'s sign, abdominal pulsation felt in cases of aneurysm of the abdominal aorta. 1961Brit. Med. Dict. 355/1 Corrigan's button, or button cautery, a metal hemisphere carried on a shaft and handle.. Corrigan's disease, aortic incompetence... Corrigan's line, copper line; a green line at the bases of the teeth in copper poisoning. |