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    Thomas Willis FRS (27 January 1621 – 11 November 1675) was an English physician who played an important part in the history of anatomy, neurology and...
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    The circle of Willis (also called Willis' circle, loop of Willis, cerebral arterial circle, and Willis polygon) is a circulatory anastomosis that supplies...
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  • English Civil War Thomas H. Willis (1850–1925), American painter Tom Willis (soccer) (born 1983), Australian goalkeeper Tom Willis (rugby union, born...
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    popular culture. Hank Willis Thomas was born in 1976 in Plainfield, New Jersey to Hank Thomas, a jazz musician, and Deborah Willis, artist, photographer...
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    neuropsychology emerged. Thomas Willis studied at Oxford University and took a physiological approach to the brain and behavior. It was Willis who coined the words...
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  • Thomas Willis (1756-1797) was a sailor with the Second voyage of James Cook. Willis was born in 1756, the son of Richard Willis, M.A., Rector of Hartley...
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    Rumer Glenn Willis (born August 16, 1988) is an American actress. The eldest daughter of actors Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, she made her acting debut...
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    poorly received. Willis retired from acting in 2022 due to aphasia. He was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2023. As a singer, Willis released his...
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  • Thomas Willis Cobb (1784 – February 1, 1830) was an American politician who served as a United States representative and Senator from Georgia. Born in...
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  • Thomas Willis Pratt, (born 1812, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American engineer. He is best known for his 1844 patent for the Pratt truss, which he designed...
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    RLS becomes increasingly common with age. Sir Thomas Willis provided a medical description in 1672. Willis emphasized the sleep disruption and limb movements...
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  • Thomas James Willis Fleming (19 June 1819 – 7 March 1890) was an English landed proprietor and Conservative Member of Parliament. He was the second son...
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    accounts often referred to diabetes as a disease of the kidneys. In 1674, Thomas Willis suggested that diabetes may be a disease of the blood. Johann Peter...
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    by Bruce Willis "Bruce Willis". Golden Globe Awards. Archived from the original on October 21, 2020. Retrieved June 21, 2021. "Bruce Willis". Emmys.com...
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  • Thomas Willis White (1788–1843) was an American printer and publisher who founded the Southern Literary Messenger. He was born in Williamsburg, Virginia...
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    Wesley Lawrence Willis (May 31, 1963 – August 21, 2003) was an American musician and visual artist. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1989, Willis began a career...
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  • Willis was charged with her kidnapping and murder on the strength of forensic evidence combined with eyewitness testimony that implicated him. Willis...
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    16th centuries with the work and research of many neurologists such as Thomas Willis, Robert Whytt, Matthew Baillie, Charles Bell, Moritz Heinrich Romberg...
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    passage of the federal Indian Removal Act. The county was named for Thomas Willis Cobb, a U.S. representative and senator from Georgia. It is believed...
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  • Thomas H. Willis (1845-June 1, 1925) was a Danish-born American artist who combined marine art, folk art, and needlework in his portraits of American and...
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  • The Willis (later Willis Bund) family were of Wick, Worcestershire, a cadet branch of the Cambridgeshire family from which also came brothers Thomas and...
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  • to the shooting. In 2001, Thomas Willis reported being intimidated by Williams; an investigator was called in, to whom Willis reported at least three examples...
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    Woodrow Wilson. Born on January 22, 1852, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Thomas Willis Alexander and Jane (née Robinson). Alexander attended Culver-Stockton...
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  • Thomas Willis (1576–1656) was a member of the English landed gentry and Clerk of the Crown in Chancery at the outbreak of the English Civil War, owing...
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  • Eerdman's. John Thomas Willis was born November 21, 1933, in Abilene, Texas. He married Evelyn Forrest and they have four children. Willis earned his B.A...
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    as Thomas Willis' deputy. Valentine Willis was granted office as Clerk of the Crown in reversion after his father and his brother, both named Thomas Willis...
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    believed that CSF was secreted by the pia mater. Thomas Willis (noted as the discoverer of the circle of Willis) made note of the fact that the consistency...
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    circle of Willis was named after his investigations into the blood supply of the brain, and he was the first to use the word "neurology". Willis removed...
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    James Cook and named for Cook's midshipman Thomas Willis, the crew member who first sighted them. The Willis Islands were charted in greater detail and...
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  • Richard Willis, esq. of Halsnead Park." Browne Willis was the anatomist Thomas Willis's grandson. Richard Willis of Halsnead Park was, like Thomas Willis, a...
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