Born in 1874, Howard Carter first went to Egypt as a young artist hired to sketch artifacts. He went on to become an important archaeologist, and the lead excavator of the tomb of King Tutankhamun. Early Life. Howard Carter was born on May 9, 1874, in Kensington, London. His father Samuel Carter was a successful artist. Howard was a sickly child, and was sent to live with his aunts in Norfolk. He had private home schooling, and had an artistic streak from an early age.
Systemic Sclerosis (SS) Systemic sclerosis (SS) is an autoimmune disorder. This means itâs a condition in which the immune system attacks the body. Healthy tissue is destroyed because the immune system mistakenly thinks itâs a foreign substance or infection.
sclerosis. an induration or hardening, especially of a part from inflammation, or in disease of the interstitial substance. The term is used chiefly for such a hardening of the nervous system due to hyperplasia of the connective tissue or for hardening of the blood vessels.Called also induration. adj., adj sclerotÂ´ic.uberous sclerosis a congenital heredofamilial disease, transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait, characterized principally by the presence of hamartomas of the brain (tubers), retina (phakomas), and viscera, mental retardation, seizures, and adenoma sebaceum, and often associated with other skin lesions.