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appendicectomy (medicine) and Monod, Jacques (Lucien) (sh)


appendicectomy (medicine)


appendicectomy -->
appendectomy
<procedure, surgery> A surgical procedure which involves the removal of an inflamed appendix.

This procedure may be performed through a conventional abdominal incision or using a laparoscope. In both approaches the patient is asleep under General anaesthesia. Convalescence in the hospital is 1 to 3 days. Typically much shorter if performed laparoscopically. Rupture of the appendix can lengthen recovery time considerably.

See: appendicitis.


Monod, Jacques (Lucien) (sh)




born Feb. 9, 1910, Paris, France
died May 31, 1976, Cannes

French biochemist.

In 1961 he and Francois Jacob proposed the existence of messenger RNA (mRNA), theorizing that the messenger carries the information encoded in the base sequence to the ribosomes, where the sequence of bases of the messenger RNA is translated into the sequence of amino acids of a protein. In advancing the concept of gene complexes that they called operons, they suggested the existence of a class of genes that regulate the function of Other genes by regulating the synthesis of mRNA. The two shared a 1965 Nobel Prize with Andre Lwoff (1902-94).