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Thompson, Hunter S(tockton) (sh) and drooping lily sign (medicine)


Thompson, Hunter S(tockton) (sh)




born July 18, 1939, Louisville, Ky., U.S.

U.S. journalist.

He had run-ins with the law as a young man and served in the U.S. Air Force. In 1965 he infiltrated the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang and published his account, Hell's Angels, in 1966. His psychedelic-drug romp, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971), is considered a contemporary classic. Other books include Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973), The Great Shark Hunt (1979), and Better Than Sex (1994). He created the genre known as "gonzo journalism," a style created from (by his own account) accident and desperation, and his Writing
idiosyncratic and subjective in the extreme, and often wildly funny
gained him a large underground following.


drooping lily sign (medicine)


drooping lily sign
<radiology> Appearance of renal pelvis with duplicated collecting system, upper pole moiety obstructs, becomes hydronephrotic, most likely to be compresses lower-pole moiety and pushes it downward see also: Weigert-Meyer rule