Etymology

King-Armstrong unit

Today it means: An obsolete measure of alkaline phosphatase concentration in the blood. Full definition →

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Named after Canadian biochemist Earl Judson King (1901–1962) and Canadian physician Arthur Riley Armstrong (1904–?).

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