See Also: Visconti, Luchino(encyclopedia)
Visconti (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Visconti, Gian Galeazzo(encyclopedia)

phlebography (iou) and Visconti, Luchino (sh)


phlebography (iou)



phlebography noun. M19.
[from PHLEBO- + -GRAPHY.]
Medicine.
1. A description of the veins. Only in M19.
2. The recording of the pulse in a vein. rare. E20.
3. Radiography of veins, carried out after the injection of a Radio-opaque substance. M20.
phlebogram noun (a) (now rare) a diagram of the pulsations of a vein; (b) = phlebograph (b): L19.
phlebograph noun (a) an instrument for recording diagrammatically the pulsations of a vein; (b) a radiograph made by phlebography: L19.
phlebographic adjective pertaining to or involving phlebography M20.

Visconti, Luchino (sh)




orig. Don Luchino Visconti, count di Modrone

born Nov. 2, 1906, Milan
died March 17, 1976, Rome

Italian Film and theatre director.

Born into the nobility, he became an assistant to Jean Renoir in 1935. He directed his first Film, Ossessione (1942), in a style foreshadowing the Neorealism of Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica. His later films include the documentary-style drama La terra trema (1948), Senso (1954), Rocco and His Brothers (1960), The Leopard (1963, Golden Palm), The Damned (1969), and Death in Venice (1971). As a stage director, he introduced to Italy works by Jean Cocteau, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams, and he staged operas starring Maria Callas that combined realism and spectacle.