Definition of Charcot

1. Noun. French neurologist who tried to use hypnotism to cure hysteria (1825-1893).

Exact synonyms: Jean Martin Charcot
Generic synonyms: Brain Doctor, Neurologist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Charcot

Chapultepec
Char
Chara
Characeae
Characean algae
Characidae
Characinidae
Charadrii
Charadriidae
Charadriiformes
Charadrius
Charadrius melodus
Charadrius morinellus
Charadrius vociferus
Charales
Charcot (current term)
Charcot's arteries
Charcot's disease
Charcot's gait
Charcot's intermittent fever
Charcot's syndrome
Charcot's triad
Charcot's vertigo
Charcot-Bottcher crystalloids
Charcot-Bouchard aneurysm
Charcot-Leyden crystals
Charcot-Marie-Tooth
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Charcot-Neumann crystals
Charcot-Robin crystals

Literary usage of Charcot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1903)
"The progressive muscular atrophy described by Charcot and Marie, ... Charcot and Marie did not believe in the neuritic origin of their disease, ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1903)
"The progressive muscular atrophy described by Charcot and Marie, ... Charcot and Marie did not believe in the neuritic origin of their disease, ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1890)
"PROFESSOR Charcot, Policlinique, 1888-1889. Notes de Cours de MM. ... By PROFESSOR Charcot. THE book before us is a bulky volume of over 550 pages, ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The latter, of which Charcot was the renowned chief, believes in a physical cause, and not a moral. It attributes hypnosis to a nervous or cerebral ..."

5. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1899)
"Lesions of the insular sclerosis in the pons and medulla (Charcot). out of ... Charcot, in one of his later lectures, reported a case consecutive to ..."

6. Clinical Diagnosis: The Bacteriological, Chemical, and Microscopical by Rudolf Jaksch von Wartenhorst (1899)
"Charcot-Leyden Crystals, Irom the Sputum of an Asthmatic Patient (eye-piece III., objective VII., ..."

7. The Art of Cross-examination: With the Cross-examinations of Important by Francis Lewis Wellman (1904)
"She was a lady assuming the name of Charcot, claiming to be Madame Charcot." Counsel. " So that when you wrote in this article that you had met Charcot, ..."

8. Practical physiological chemistry by Philip Bovier Hawk (1918)
"phate," Charcot-Leyden crystals, and the oxalate, carbonate, phosphate, ... Bleeding from the bowel such Fl<>. 68.—Charcot- . , , ., „ ,, , . , . ..."

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