cyril northcote parkinson

Par·kin·son

[pahr-kin-suhn]
noun
C(yril) North·cote [nawrth-kuht] , 1909–93, English author and historian.
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Parkinson Par·kin·son (pär'kĭn-sən), James. 1755-1824.

British physician who gave (1817) a comprehensive description of paralysis agitans, or Parkinson's disease, and was the first to recognize (1812) perforation of the appendix as a cause of death in appendicitis.

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