Finsen
Americannoun
noun
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At around the start of the 20th century, scientist Niels Ryberg Finsen developed a light-based treatment for lupus vulgaris, a form of TB that affects the face.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2025
The material was probably scattered across the surface when another impact later created the nearby 72-kilometre-wide Finsen crater.
From Nature • May 14, 2019
West, M. J., Ostergaard, K., Andreassen, O. A. & Finsen, B. Estimation of the number of somatostatin neurons in the striatum: an in situ hybridization study using the optical fractionator method.
From Nature • Oct. 31, 2017
Ms. Finsen was game, and asked Grady what he liked to draw.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2013
Of the milder methods, those most in vogue to-day are the Finsen light and x-ray.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
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