Listerism

(lis'-ter-izm). A general name for the antiseptic and aseptic treatment of wounds according to the principles first enunciated by Lister, an English physician.

Listing's Law [Listing, a German scientist]. When the line of sight passes from its primary position into any other position, the angle of rotation of the eyeball in this second position is the same as if the eyeball had been rotated about a fixed axis, perpendicular to both the first and the second direction of the line of sight. L.'s Plane y the vertical transverse plane perpendicular to the anteroposterior axis of the eyeball, which passes through the center of motion of the eyes and in which lie the verti- cal and transverse axes of normal voluntary rotation. L.'s Reduced Eye. See Eye, Diagrammatic.

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