Metchnikoff

[mech-ni-kawf, -kof; Russ. myech-nyi-kuhf]

Metch·ni·koff

[mech-ni-kawf, -kof; Russ. myech-nyi-kuhf]
noun
É·lie [Fr. ey-lee] , (Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov), 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel prize for medicine 1908.
Russian, Mechnikov.
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Metchnikoff is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Metchnikoff (French mɛtʃnikɔf, Russian ˈmjetʃnikəf)
 
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Élie (eli). 1845--1916, Russian bacteriologist in France. He formulated the theory of phagocytosis and shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1908

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Metchnikoff Metch·ni·koff or Metch·ni·kov (měch'nĭ-kôf', myěch'nĭ-kəf), Elie. 1845-1916.

Russian zoologist. He shared a 1908 Nobel Prize for the discovery of phagocytes and their role in the immune system.

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