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▪ I. ˈTurner3|ˈtɜːnə(r)|
The name of James Turner, eighteenth-century London colour-maker, used attrib. and in the possessive to designate a yellow pigment patented by him in 1781; = mineral yellow s.v. mineral a. 5 b.
[1792Act 32 Geo. III. c. 73 The yellow colour invented by the said James Turner, and which is composed of British materials only, has been found to be far superior to the foreign.] 1835[see Montpellier yellow s.v. Montpellier]. 1886H. C. Standage Artists' Man. Pigments iv. 46 Turner Yellow, Cassel Yellow,..Mineral Yellow. 1951R. Mayer Artist's Handbk. Materials & Techniques ii. 63 Turner's yellow, lead oxychloride... Patented by James Turner, England, 1781. 1970R. D. Harley Artists' Pigments viii. 92 Accounts of the legal proceedings give no indication of the place where Turner's yellow was made, although, according to one authority the pigment was manufactured at..Walker-upon-Tyne where it was sold as Turner's Patent Yellow.
▪ II. Turner4 Med.|ˈtɜːnə(r)|
The name of Henry Hubert Turner (b. 1892) U.S. physician, used in the possessive (less commonly attrib.) to designate a syndrome he described in 1938 which affects females and is characterized by developmental abnormalities including an absence of ovaries, underdeveloped breasts and womb, and shortness of stature, and is usu. caused by a missing X chromosome in normally XX cells.
1942Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. CCIV. 641 Dr. Lawson Wilkins..showed one of the authors a patient who..has both coarctation of the aorta and webbing of the neck. He called the authors' attention to ‘Turner's syndrome’. 1961Lancet 23 Sept. 711/2 It had taken more than 50 years from the recognition of the sex chromosome to the discovery that children with Turner's syndrome had just one X chromosome, and Klinefelter's syndrome 2Xs and a Y. 1970[see Klinefelter]. 1977Lancet 19 Mar. 649/2 There have been conflicting reports about the level of amniotic-fluid α-fetoprotein (A.F.T.) when a fetus has Turner syndrome. |