Cushing may refer to:
People
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Cushing (surname) Cushing is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Alonzo Cushing (1841–1863), U.S. Army officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor
* Arthur Cushing (1869–1944), Canadian politician
* Brian Cushing (born 1987), American football ...
Places in the United States
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Cushing, Iowa
Cushing is a city in Woodbury County, Iowa, United States. It is part of the Sioux City, IA– NE– SD Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 230 at the time of the 2020 census.
History
A post office called Cushing has been i ...
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Cushing, Maine
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Cushing, Minnesota
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Cushing Township, Minnesota
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Cushing, Nebraska
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Cushing, Oklahoma
Cushing ( sac, Koshineki, iow, Amína P^óp^oye Chína, ''meaning: "Soft-seat town"'') is a city in Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 7,826 at the time of the 2010 census, a decline of 6.5% since 8,371 in 2000. Cushing ...
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Cushing, Texas
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Cushing, Wisconsin
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Cushing Island, Maine
Cushing Island, or Cushing's Island, is a privately owned island in Casco Bay in the U.S. state of Maine. Part of the city of Portland, Maine, roughly 45 families live there seasonally.
History
In 1623-24 English explorer Christopher Levett b ...
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Cushing Academy
Cushing Academy is a private, coeducational college-preparatory school for boarding and day students in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, United States. It serves approximately 400 students in grades 9–12 and a postgraduate year.
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, a boarding school in Ashburnham, Massachusetts
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Cushing Hall
Cushing Hall (1824) is a dormitory at Hampden–Sydney College in southside Virginia. Built in sections from 1822–1833, Cushing Hall is the oldest four story dormitory still in use in the United States. The building is listed in the Virginia La ...
, a dormitory at Hampden–Sydney College in Hampden Sydney, Virginia
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Cushing House
Cushing House (formerly called Cushing Hall) is a four-story co-ed dormitory on Vassar College's campus in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York. A response to freshmen overcrowding, the college's Board of Trustees hurried the Allen & Collens-desig ...
, a dormitory at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York
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Cushing House Museum and Garden
The Cushing House Museum and Garden (circa 1808), also known as the Caleb Cushing House, is a Federal style mansion with a fine garden located at 98 High Street, Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States. It was a home of diplomat Caleb Cushing ...
in Newburyport, Massachusetts
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Cushing's disease
Cushing's disease is one cause of Cushing's syndrome characterised by increased secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) from the anterior pituitary (secondary hypercortisolism). This is most often as a result of a pituitary adenoma (spe ...
, an endocrine disorder (one of several specific causes of Cushing's syndrome)
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Cushing's syndrome
Cushing's syndrome is a collection of signs and symptoms due to prolonged exposure to glucocorticoids such as cortisol. Signs and symptoms may include high blood pressure, abdominal obesity but with thin arms and legs, reddish stretch marks, a ...
, an endocrine disorder (an umbrella term for several disorders, including Cushing's disease and related disorders)
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Cushing reflex Cushing reflex (also referred to as the vasopressor response, the Cushing effect, the Cushing reaction, the Cushing phenomenon, the Cushing response, or Cushing's Law) is a physiological nervous system response to increased intracranial pressure (IC ...
, in response to brain ischemia
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Cushing's triad Cushing reflex (also referred to as the vasopressor response, the Cushing effect, the Cushing reaction, the Cushing phenomenon, the Cushing response, or Cushing's Law) is a physiological nervous system response to increased intracranial pressure (IC ...
, a clinical triad
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Cushing ulcer
A Cushing ulcer, named after Harvey Cushing, is a gastric ulcer associated with elevated intracranial pressure. It is also called von Rokitansky–Cushing syndrome. Apart from the stomach, ulcers may also develop in the proximal duodenum and d ...
, a gastric ulcer
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USS ''Cushing'' (DD-985)
See also
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Justice Cushing (disambiguation)
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