See Also: nephrotomy(dictionary)
nephrotomy(medicine)
anatrophic nephrotomy(medicine)
tate(dictionary)
Tate Gallery(dictionary)
Tate Britain(dictionary)
Tate Gallery(encyclopedia)
Tate (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Tate, Nahum(encyclopedia)
Tate Modern, the(dictionary)

Tate Gallery (sh) and nephrotomy (medicine)


Tate Gallery (sh)




Art museum in London housing the national collection of British painting and sculpture and of modern British and European Art since งใ 1870.

It is named after Sir Henry Tate (1819-1899), a sugar refiner and inventor of the sugar cube, who donated his collection of Victorian Art to the nation in 1890. The Neoclassical building, designed by Sidney R. J. Smith, opened in 1897. Originally administered by the National Gallery, the museum became completely independent only in 1954. In 1987 the Clore Gallery was built to house the principal collection of J.M.W. Turner's works. In 1988 a branch was opened in Liverpool. The Tate Modern, a converted power plant housing the modern collections, opened in 2000.


nephrotomy (medicine)


nephrotomy
<surgery> Extraction of stone from the kidney by cutting.

Origin: Gr. A kidney + to cut: cf. F. Nephrotomie.

Source: Websters Dictionary