Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
duct of Ri·vi·nus Pronunciation:
-r&-'vE-n&s Function:
noun : any of several small inconstant efferent ducts of thesublingual gland
Rivinus, Augustus Quirinus (1652–1723), German anatomist and botanist. Rivinus described the excretory ducts of the sublingual glands in an article ondyspepsia published in 1678. In 1701 he made a list of the recognized drugs of the time. He classified certain drugs as useless or undesirable and tried to remove from the materia medica of his timesuch substances as feces and urine. In the field of botanical taxonomy he is remembered for his attempts to classify plants more systematically. He was one of the first botanists to use a binomialnomenclature.
