See Also: Byronic(dictionary)

von Willebrand (iou) and Byronic (iou)


von Willebrand (iou)



von Willebrand noun. M20.
[Erik Adolf von Willebrand (1870-1949), Finnish physician.]
Medicine. Used attrib. and in possess. to designate a hereditary condition characterized by prolonged bleeding, caused by deficiency or abnormality of a plasma coagulation factor.

Byronic (iou)



Byronic adjective & noun. E19.
[from Byron (see below) + -IC.]
A. adjective. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) or his writings. E19.
b. noun. In pl. Byronic utterances or behaviour. M19.
Byronically adverb in a Byronic manner M19.