Baer (bâr), Karl Ernst von. 1792-1876.
Estonian-born German naturalist and pioneer embryologist who discovered (1827) the mammalian egg in the ovary. He later described the process by which the fertilized egg develops first into germ layers and then into different organs and tissues.
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
BAER abbr.
brainstem auditory evoked response
| BAER brainstem auditory evoked response |