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Muller's law (medicine)


Muller's law


Each type of sensory nerve ending, however stimulated (electrically, mechanically, etc.), gives rise to its own specific sensation; moreover, each type of sensation depends not upon any special character of the different nerves but upon the part of the brain in which their fibres terminate.

Synonym: law of specific nerve energies.


Jacobite Rising, the (oh)



also the Jacobite Rebellion
the failed attempt in 1715-16 to make James Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender) king of England
the failed attempt in 1745-46 to make Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart) king of England, which ended all hope of making the Stuart family kings of England again