Bence-Jones
(ˈbɛns ˈdʒəʊnz)
The name of Henry Bence-Jones (1813–1873), English physician, applied attrib. to a protein found esp. in the urine in the disease myelomatosis, and characterized by precipitation on moderate heating followed by re-solution at higher temperatures.
| 1902 Anders & Boston in Trans. Coll. Physicians (Philad.) XXIV. 175 Bence-Jones Albumosuria... In 1847 Henry Bence-Jones presented the first recorded instance before the Royal Society of London. Ibid. 192 The urine contained Bence-Jones albumose and albumin. 1961 Lancet 5 Aug. 291/2 Bence Jones protein which behaves classically in the heat test. |