Alexander Johnston Chalmers Skene (/skiːn/; 17 June 1837 – 4 July 1900) was a British-American gynaecologist from Scotland who described what became known...
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In female human anatomy, Skene's glands or the Skene glands (/skiːn/ SKEEN, also known as the lesser vestibular glands or paraurethral glands) are two...
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are the Loch of Skene and Skene House. In the 16th and 17th century the local Laird, Alexander Skene, was known as the "Wizard of Skene", and is the subject...
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A bronze bust of Alexander Skene is installed in Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza, in the U.S. state of New York. O'Neill, Natalie (2011-04-04). "The Great...
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Reprod. Update. 2 (4): 365–9. doi:10.1093/humupd/2.4.365. PMID 9080233. Alexander Skene (1890). Treatise on the Diseases of Women. D. Appleton & Co, New York...
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Skene is a surname of Scottish origin. Notable people with the surname include: Alan Skene (1932–2001), South African rugby footballer Alexander Skene...
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British political officer, Captain Alexander Skene, for permission to raise a body of armed men for her protection; Skene agreed to this. The city was relatively...
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the Skenes joined the army of Alexander I of Scotland which marched against rebels in the north in 1118. John de Skeen's grandson, John de Skene, held...
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Warren and Henry Warner Slocum; busts of notable Brooklyn citizens Alexander Skene and Henry W. Maxwell; and two 12-sided gazebos with "granite Tuscan...
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Female ejaculation is characterized as an expulsion of fluid from the Skene's gland at the lower end of the urethra during or before an orgasm. It is...
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Aberdeenshire. His father James Skene, a notary, was a son of Alexander Skene of Skene and Elizabeth Forbes, a daughter of Lord Forbes. He was killed...
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1886. Skene was born Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of Alexander John Skene, an army major, and his wife Catherine Margaret, née Auldjowas. Skene junior...
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In the theatre of ancient Greece, the skene was the structure at the back of a stage. The word skene means 'tent' or 'hut', and it is thought that the...
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Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the eldest surviving son of Lilias Skene née Gillespie and Alexander Skene, a merchant. In 1659 he was admitted as a burgess in Aberdeen...
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fibres – William Sharpey Shrapnell's membrane – Henry Jones Shrapnell Skene's gland – Alexander Skene Spiegelian fascia, Spiegelian line, Spiegelian lobe – Adriaan...
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bladder stone. The term "interstitial cystitis" was coined by Dr. Alexander Skene in 1887 to describe the disease. In 2002, the United States amended...
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1975, as part of an appendix "The Muse and the Mutiny" (pp. 174-183) Alexander Skene was the British political officer stationed at Jhansi. Roe, Dinah (15...
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seventeenth century was an Aberdeen landowner and Bailie. In 1670 Bailie Alexander Skene of Newtyle applied to the Council to re-build and refurnish the well...
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Earl Fife (redirect from Baron Skene)
his death in 1857. Later that year, the 5th Earl was created Baron Skene, of Skene in the County of Aberdeen, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. In...
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fellow surveyor, Alexander Skene, who became the Victorian Surveyor General in 1868. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Skenes Creek (Suburb...
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Peter Skene Ogden (alternately Skeene, Skein, or Skeen; baptised 12 February 1790 – 27 September 1854) was a British-Canadian fur trader and an early...
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On 26 August 1646 at Kirkcaldy she married the Aberdeen merchant Alexander Skene (c1621–1694), a magistrate and the author of Memorialls for the Government...
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architecture. It was built by the widow of prominent gynecologist Alexander Skene, who summered in the area, and had founded the library several years...
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Henrik Sjögren, Swedish physician – Sjögren's syndrome Alexander Skene, Scottish gynaecologist – Skene's gland BF Skinner, American psychologist – Skinner...
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HMS Minden 74 once she was brought out from Portsmouth by Captain Alexander Skene in January 1813. Minden remained as his flagship through December 1814...
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the problems. Alexander Skene, MD - authority on women's diseases; discovered the paraurethral glands known as Skene's gland or Skene's ducts (1880)....
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Dockyard, and entered active duty in 1808 under the command of Captain Alexander Skene. She was based in Jamaica and on 15 February she captured the French...
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John F. Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy Pee Wee Reese & Jackie Robinson Alexander Skene Henry Warner Slocum Edward Snowden† James S. T. Stranahan Gouverneur...
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pressure against it. On Main Street, the Skene Memorial Library was founded by celebrated surgeon Alexander Skene and his wife, who were summer residents...
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of MacDuff. On 17 August 1775 he married Mary Skene (1754–1790), daughter of George Skene, 18th of Skene, at Carriston, Angus. Together, they were the...
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