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Northwestern University (sh)




Private university in Evanston, Illinois, U.S., founded in 1851.

It is a comprehensive research institution that includes a college of arts and sciences and schools of Music, Education, social policy, graduate studies, law, medicine, and dentistry. It also includes the Medill School of Journalism, the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Research facilities include centres for the study of learning, urban affairs and policy, and superconductivity.


Reissner's membrane (medicine)


reissner's membrane
<anatomy> The thin membrane which separates the canal of the cochlea from the vestibular scala in the internal ear.

Origin: Named from E. Reissner, A German anatomist.

Source: Websters Dictionary