See Also: Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church(tourism)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
Westminster(tourism)
Westminster(dictionary)
Westminster(dictionary)
Victoria Inn Westminster(tourism)
Westminster Confession(encyclopedia)
Palace of Westminster(dictionary)
Westminster, Statute of(encyclopedia)

loiasis (medicine) and Westminster (iou)


loiasis (medicine)


loiasis


A parasitic infection caused by the nematode loa loa. The vector in the transmission of this infection is the horsefly (tabanus) or the deerfly or mango fly (chrysops). The larvae may be seen just beneath the skin or passing through the conjunctiva. Eye lesions are not uncommon. The disease is generally mild and painless.


Westminster (iou)



Westminster noun. M16.
[Westminster Abbey (see below) or the City of Westminster, an inner London borough: from WEST adjective + MINSTER.]
Used attrib. to designate people or things associated with Westminster Abbey, the collegiate church of St Peter in inner London, esp. with ref. to the Hall used as a court of justice, to the assembly of divines held in 1643, or to St Peter's College. M16.
b. ellipt. A present or former pupil of St Peter's College. L17.
The Palace of Westminster, a former royal residence where Parliament sat until the destruction of the buildings by fire in 1834, the present Houses of Parliament later built on the same site; allus. parliamentary life; parliament; Politics. E19.
Westminster chimes, Westminster quarters the pattern of chimes struck at successive quarters by Big Ben in the Houses of Parliament, used for Other clocks and door chimes; the chime uses four bells struck in five different four-note sequences, each of which occurs twice in the course of an hour.