(1913-1994) English actor. Elegant and often sinister, he specialized in horror roles in films made at Hammer studios 1957–73, including Dracula 1958, The Mummy 1959, and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed 1969. Other films include Doctor Who and the Daleks 1966, Star Wars 1977, and Top Secret 1984.
Born in Kenley, Surrey, Cushing made his professional stage debut in 1935 with Worthing Repertory Company. In 1938 he went to the US, remaining there for four years and appearing in several films, among them the Laurel and Hardy comedy A Chump at Oxford 1939. Back in Britain, he joined ENSA to entertain the troops, and after the war was intermittently busy in the theater, notably with Laurence Olivier’s Old Vic company, with whom he toured Australia and New Zealand. He also played Osric in Olivier’s film of Hamlet 1948. But it was on television that he first achieved celebrity, acting in a wide range of classic and modern drama and most notably playing Winston Smith in a dramatization of George Orwell’s 1984 1954, which provoked a public outcry over its torture scenes.
Cushing first played the role of Baron Frankenstein in 1957, and Count Dracula in 1958, bestowing on each a touch of class and quality. Although his success in the Hammer films led to his being typecast within that genre, he was able to venture into other fields, and played Sherlock Holmes in the film Hound of the Baskervilles 1959, and most recently appeared in the TV movie Masks of Death 1984.

(1869-1939) US neurologist who pioneered neurosurgery. He developed a range of techniques for the surgical treatment of brain tumors, and also studied the link between the pituitary gland and conditions such as dwarfism. He first described the chronic wasting disease now known as Cushing’s syndrome.
Cushing was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied medicine at Yale and Harvard, and later in Switzerland and the UK. From 1912 to 1932 he was professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School; in 1933 he became professor of neurology at Yale.
As a result of experimenting on the effect of artificially increasing intercranial pressure in animals, Cushing developed new methods of controlling blood pressure and bleeding during surgery on human beings.
Cushing wrote a description of the stages in the development of different types of intercranial tumors, classified such tumors, and published a definitive account of acoustic nerve tumors 1917.
In 1908 Cushing began studying the pituitary gland and, after experimenting on animals, discovered a way of gaining access to this gland surgically. As a result of this discovery it became possible to treat cases of blindness caused by tumors in that region.

Množina: Cushings

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Množina: Cushing's diseases

A glandular disorder caused by excessive ACTH resulting in greater than normal functioning of the adrenal gland; characterized by obesity; Also called: hyperadrenalism.

Množina: Cushing's operations

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Množina: Cushing's syndromes

A glandular disorder caused by excessive cortisol; Also called: hyperadrenocorticism.
Condition in which the body chemistry is upset by excessive production of steroid hormones from the adrenal cortex.
Symptoms include weight gain in the face and trunk, raised blood pressure, excessive growth of facial and body hair (hirsutism), demineralization of bone, and, sometimes, diabeteslike effects. The underlying cause may be an adrenal or pituitary tumor, or prolonged high-dose therapy with corticosteroid drugs.