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elie metchnikoff

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Metch⋅ni⋅koff

  [mech-ni-kawf, -kof; Russ. myech-nyi-kuhf]
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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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Metch·ni·koff also Metch·ni·kov   (měch'nĭ-kôf', myěch'nĭ-kəf)   
Russian zoologist. He shared a 1908 Nobel Prize for discoveries and advances in immunology.
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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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