Leyden (disambiguation)

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Leyden may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 2 People 3 Food 4 Medicine 5 Science and technology 6 Epigraphy and papyrology 7 Ships

[edit] Places

• Leiden, a city and municipality in South Holland, the Netherlands

• Several places in the United States of America:
  • Leyden, Colorado
  • Leyden, Massachusetts
  • Leyden, New York
  • Port Leyden, New York, a village partly within the Town of Leyden, New York

[edit] People

• Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533), a Dutch engraver and painter
• Ernst Viktor von Leyden (1832-1910), a German physician

[edit] Food

• Leyden cheese, a spiced cheese made in the Netherlands

[edit] Medicine

• Factor V Leiden, a variant of human factor V that causes a hypercoagulability disorder.

[edit] Science and technology

• Leyden jar, a device for storing electric charge invented in 1745.

[edit] Epigraphy and papyrology

• Leiden Conventions, an established set of rules, symbols, and brackets used to indicate the condition of an epigraphic or papyrological text in a modern edition

[edit] Ships

• USS Leyden, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

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