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William Senhouse Kirkes (21 January 1822 near Cartmel, Lancashire - 8 December 1864) was an English physiologist noted for his reference work "Kirkes' Physiology" which first appeared in 1848.

Kirkes' main research field was cardiology and vascular disease, and he first described embolism from vegetations in infective endocarditis in 1852. In 1855 he published a paper on apoplexy in Bright's disease, in which he singled out the role played by increased intra-arterial tension in arterial disease.

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