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▪ I. Holmgren1|ˈhəʊmgrən, ˈhəʊlmgrən| The name of A. F. Holmgren (1831–97), Swedish physiologist, used in the possessive in Holmgren's (wool) test, a test for colour-blindness devised by Holmgren in which the subject is asked to match differently coloured pieces of wool; also Holmgren's wools, † Holmgren worsteds.
1879B. J. Jeffries Color-Blindness xviii. 195 Dr. Magnus of Breslau has lately proposed a modification of Holmgren's test by letting the examined pick out from bundles of colored worsteds those which match the colors of the solar spectrum shown them at the same time. Ibid. xxii. 241 To further test railroad employés or others, after having decided on their color-blindness by Holmgren's worsteds,..will be..of great value to examiners. 1890Holmgren's wools [see green-blind a.]. 1932S. Duke-Elder Text-bk. Ophthalm. I. xxv. 987 Holmgren's wool test, despite the strictures which have been passed upon it, is of great service. 1964― Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xxiv. 364 Holmgren's Wools. These consist of a selection of skeins of coloured wools from which the candidate is required to make a series of colour-matches. ▪ II. Holmgren2|ˈhəʊmgrən, ˈhəʊlmgrən| The name of E. A. Holmgren (1866–1922), Swedish biologist, used attrib. to designate a system of canals discovered by him in the cytoplasm of some cells.
1921Anatomical Rec. XXII. 78 Further work upon the Holmgren canals is required to clearly demonstrate the developmental stages. 1936Nature 30 May 915/2 The relation of the vacuome system to the Golgi network or the Holmgren canals. 1952G. H. Bourne Cytol. & Cell Physiol. (ed. 2) vi. 250 Evidence obtained from ultra-centrifugation of cells..shows that the Holmgren canals become stratified in a different position from the Golgi apparatus. |