Raymond Delacy Adams

**Raymond Delacy Adams** (13 ga Fabrairu, 1911 - 18 ga Oktoba, 2008)  ƙwararren likitan jijiyoyi ne na Amurka, masanin cututtukan jijiyoyi, Farfesa Bullard na ilimin cututtukan jijiyoyi a Makarantar Likitanci ta Harvard kuma shugaban ilimin jijiyoyi a Babban Asibitin Massachusetts .  Tare da likitan jijiyoyi Maurice Victor, Adams shine marubucin *Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology*, bugu na 12 wanda ya fito, shekaru 50 bayan asalin. 

An haifi Adams kusa da Portland, Oregon, ɗan William Henry Adams da Eva Mabel Morriss ne.  Ya kammala karatunsa daga Jami'ar Oregon da digiri a fannin ilimin halayyar ɗan adam. Ya sami digiri na farko a fannin ilimin halayyar ɗan adam daga Makarantar Likitanci ta Jami'ar Duke a 1936.  Adams ya zama shugaban ilimin jijiyoyi a Massachusetts General a 1951 ya yi ritaya a 1977. Adams yana da ilimin ilimin jijiyoyi na manya, ilimin jijiyoyi na yara, da kuma ilimin jijiyoyi kuma ana ɗaukarsa a matsayin fitaccen masanin jijiyoyi na tsakiyar ƙarni na 20. An zaɓe shi a matsayin memba na Kwalejin Fasaha da Kimiyya ta Amurka a 1955.  Ya taimaka wajen kafa Cibiyar Eunice Kennedy Shriver don Rage Hankali.

Rubuta tare da wanda ya kafa dakin gwaje-gwaje na neuropathology a Babban Asibitin Massachusetts Charles S. Kubik, Adams ya rubuta takardun asibiti, daya a cikin 1946 yana kwatanta rufewar jijiyar basilar,  kuma wani a cikin 1952 yana kwatanta da bambance-bambance cututtukan demyelin ciki har da cututtukani masu tsanani da na sclerosis mai yawa.  A shekara ta 1949, tare da Joseph Michael Foley ya bayyana mummunan myoclonus  kuma a shekara ta 1953 sun kirkiro kalmar asterixis .  A shekara ta 1959, Adams da abokan aiki sun fara bayyana tsakiya na tsakiya na pontine myelinolysis,  wata cuta da ke cire myelin daga axons a cikin kwakwalwa, amma ya bambanta da sclerosis mai yawa. Tare da likitan jijiyoyin Australiya James Waldo Lance ya bayyana myoclonus mai cutar ta asibiti, daga baya aka kira shi Cutar Lance-Adams. Adams, tare da hadin gwiwar likitan jijiyoyin Kanada Dokta C. Miller Fisher, ya ba da gudummawa ga fagen cututtukan ƙwaƙwalwa, ciwon "amnesia na duniya" a cikin 1964,  kuma a cikin 1965 ya buga wata kasida a cikin New England Journal of Medicine yana kwatanta ciwon "hawan matsin lamba na al'ada".  A shekara ta 1964 ya bambanta da asibiti da cututtukan cututtukani na Parkinsonian, striato-nigral degeneration,  yanzu ana ɗaukar α-synucleinopathy a ƙarƙashin kalmar laima mai yawa. Takardar da ya yi a 1965 tare da Dokta M. Victor da M. Cole  suna kwatanta tasirin da aka samu a kwakwalwa na gazawar hanta da kuma shunting na jini na hanji a kusa da hanta an ambaci shi sama da sau 500 a cikin wallafe-wallafen likita. 

Adams ya mutu a Boston sakamakon matsalolin da suka shafi toshewar zuciya, yana da shekaru 97. 

## Rayuwa ta sirri
Adams ya auri M. Elinor Clark a shekarar 1933. Elinor ta koyar makarantar sakandare, ta sami digirinta na biyu a harsunan soyayya daga Jami'ar North Carolina a shekarar 1936 sannan ta sami digirinta na uku a harsunan soyayya daga Jami'ar Harvard a shekarar 1966. Sun haifi 'ya'ya huɗu. A shekarar 1974 ya auri Maria Zabnienska Salam, wata kwararriyar masaniyar cututtukan jijiyoyi ta yara daga Lebanon.

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