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Virchow

[ fir-khoh ]

noun

  1. Ru·dolf [roo, -dawlf], 1821–1902, German pathologist, anthropologist, and political leader.


Virchow

/ ˈfɪrçɔf /

noun

  1. VirchowRudolf Ludwig Karl18211902MGermanMEDICINE: pathologist Rudolf Ludwig Karl (ˈruːdɔlf ˈluːtvɪç karl). 1821–1902, German pathologist, who is considered the founder of modern (cellular) pathology


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When not responding to dueling challenges, I learned, Virchow was, among other things, the first to thoroughly describe the Virchow-Robin space.

So Virchow was the master of two very different intellectual domains, which is cool.

As a neurobiologist and primatologist who studies what the stress of social inequality does to health, Virchow’s quote could serve as the rationale for my career.

Professor Virchow is, I doubt not, an accomplished English scholar.

Virchow came to Munich only on the 20th, and delivered his speech on the 22d.

I must here be permitted to take Virchow exactly at his word.

Then what are the new proofs of the theory of descent which Virchow demands of us?

In consequence it was time to look for that civilization which Virchow had prophesied as its ultimate result.

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