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GIBSON, Alexander George (1875 – 1950)

1875 – 1950

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1907 CE

#788

The significance of a hitherto undescribed wave in the jugular pulse.

The physiological wave sometimes found in mid-diastole, when the pulse is slow, was first described by Gibson. He termed it the b-wave. Gibson worked with William Osler at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, and cared …