"Monro-Kellie hypothesis" meaning in English

See Monro-Kellie hypothesis in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: the Monro-Kellie hypothesis [canonical]
Etymology: Named after Scottish physicians Alexander Monro Secundus (1733–1817) and George Kellie (1770–1829), who developed the hypothesis. Head templates: {{en-prop|def=1}} the Monro-Kellie hypothesis
  1. (biology) A hypothesis according to which the volumes of brain, cerebrospinal fluid and intracerebral blood add up to a constant sum, so that any change in one is reflected in the others. Wikipedia link: Alexander Monro Secundus, George Kellie Categories (topical): Biology Synonyms: Monro-Kellie doctrine

Download JSON data for Monro-Kellie hypothesis meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "Named after Scottish physicians Alexander Monro Secundus (1733–1817) and George Kellie (1770–1829), who developed the hypothesis.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Monro-Kellie hypothesis",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "def": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "the Monro-Kellie hypothesis",
      "name": "en-prop"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Biology",
          "orig": "en:Biology",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hypothesis according to which the volumes of brain, cerebrospinal fluid and intracerebral blood add up to a constant sum, so that any change in one is reflected in the others."
      ],
      "id": "en-Monro-Kellie_hypothesis-en-name-L8YZaGIN",
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "hypothesis",
          "hypothesis"
        ],
        [
          "volume",
          "volume"
        ],
        [
          "brain",
          "brain"
        ],
        [
          "cerebrospinal fluid",
          "cerebrospinal fluid"
        ],
        [
          "intracerebral",
          "intracerebral"
        ],
        [
          "blood",
          "blood"
        ],
        [
          "constant",
          "constant"
        ],
        [
          "sum",
          "sum"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology) A hypothesis according to which the volumes of brain, cerebrospinal fluid and intracerebral blood add up to a constant sum, so that any change in one is reflected in the others."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Monro-Kellie doctrine"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Alexander Monro Secundus",
        "George Kellie"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Monro-Kellie hypothesis"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Named after Scottish physicians Alexander Monro Secundus (1733–1817) and George Kellie (1770–1829), who developed the hypothesis.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "the Monro-Kellie hypothesis",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "def": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "the Monro-Kellie hypothesis",
      "name": "en-prop"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Biology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hypothesis according to which the volumes of brain, cerebrospinal fluid and intracerebral blood add up to a constant sum, so that any change in one is reflected in the others."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "hypothesis",
          "hypothesis"
        ],
        [
          "volume",
          "volume"
        ],
        [
          "brain",
          "brain"
        ],
        [
          "cerebrospinal fluid",
          "cerebrospinal fluid"
        ],
        [
          "intracerebral",
          "intracerebral"
        ],
        [
          "blood",
          "blood"
        ],
        [
          "constant",
          "constant"
        ],
        [
          "sum",
          "sum"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology) A hypothesis according to which the volumes of brain, cerebrospinal fluid and intracerebral blood add up to a constant sum, so that any change in one is reflected in the others."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Monro-Kellie doctrine"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Alexander Monro Secundus",
        "George Kellie"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Monro-Kellie hypothesis"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.