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Cooper, Sir Astley Paston (medicine) and Brash (medicine)


Cooper, Sir Astley Paston (medicine)


Cooper, Sir Astley Paston
<person> English anatomist and surgeon, 1768-1841.

See: Cooper's fascia, Cooper's hernia, Cooper's herniotome, Cooper's ligaments, suspensory ligaments of Cooper.


Brash (medicine)


brash


Brittle, as wood or Vegetables.

Origin: Cf. Amer. Bresk, brusk, fragile, brittle.

1. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

2. Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.

3. <geology> Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits.

4. Broken fragments of ice.

<medicine> Water brash, a severe form of diarrhea which sometimes attacks children just weaned.

See: Brash brittle.

Source: Websters Dictionary