HANE

abbreviation for

, Pathology.

1. hereditary angioneurotic edema: former name of HAE.

Word History and Origins

Origin of HANE¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

At about 10 o'clock the whole body of the Hane men came, and two or three from Wango went across to them.

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Hane went back across the stream; and Wango went through the same performance, Taki making the speech.

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About a quarter-past four, Hane saw in this direction a human figure of enormous dimensions.

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Hane, noticing this, at once made a stooping movement, and this was also reproduced by the spectre.

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One of the best descriptions of this phenomenon is given by the traveller Hane, who witnessed it on the 23d of May, 1797.

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