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Borden, Lizzie(dictionary)
Carcinoid syndrome(health)
carcinoid syndrome(medicine)
metastatic carcinoid syndrome(medicine)
malignant carcinoid syndrome(medicine)
Lizzie(dictionary)
busy Lizzie(dictionary)
Borden (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Borden, Sir Robert (Laird)(encyclopedia)

Borden, Lizzie (Andrew) (sh) and carcinoid syndrome (medicine)


Borden, Lizzie (Andrew) (sh)




born July 19, 1860, Fall River, Mass., U.S.
died June 1, 1927, Fall River

U.S. murder suspect.

The daughter of a businessman, she lived with her wealthy but parsimonious father and stepmother. On Aug. 4, 1892, Lizzie (according to her testimony) discovered her father and his wife dead in their Home, brutally mutilated with a sharp instrument. Lizzie and the maid admitted to being in the house at the time of the murders. Lizzie was arrested and tried for both crimes, the maid being suspected as an accomplice. Evidence against Lizzie included her attempt to buy prussic acid (a poison) the day before the murders took place. An ax, which some suspected was the murder weapon, was found in the basement. Acquitted because of the circumstantial Nature of the evidence, she remained in Fall River until her death, largely ostracized by the community.


carcinoid syndrome (medicine)


carcinoid syndrome
<oncology, syndrome> A constellation of symptoms associated with a serotonin-secreting neoplasm known as carcinoid tumour.

These tumours may grow anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract (and in the lungs) with approximately 90% in the appendix. The remainder occur in the ileum, stomach, colon or rectum.

Symptoms include flushing, rapid pulse, facial swelling, swelling around the eyes, low blood pressure, abdominal pain, Weight Loss and diarrhoea.