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Macleod

[ muh-kloud ]

noun

  1. John James Rick·ard [rik, -erd], 1876–1935, Scottish physiologist: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize in medicine 1923.


Macleod

/ məˈklaʊd /

noun

  1. MacleodJohn James Rickard18761935MScottishSCIENCE: physiologist John James Rickard. 1876–1935, Scottish physiologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1923) with Banting for their part in discovering insulin


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The MacLeod trail runs less than twenty miles north of here, you know.

Lady Macleod by no means avoided her noble relatives, nor did she at all avoid Alice Vavasor.

During Lady Macleod's sojourn in London these morning visits were made almost every day.

Alice always called Lady Macleod her aunt, though, as has been before explained, there was no such close connexion between them.

Alice, as she asked this question, turned round and confronted Lady Macleod boldly.

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