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Definition of Loewi
1. Noun. United States pharmacologist (born in Germany) who was the first to show that acetylcholine is produced at the junction between a parasympathetic nerve and a muscle (1873-1961).
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Literary usage of Loewi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Vital Function Testing Methods and Their Interpretation by Wilfred Mason Barton (1917)
"In 1907 Loewi found that in pancreatectomized animals the instillation of 1-1000
solution of ... In human beings with diabetes Loewi found the same effects. ..."
2. Contrasts in Scientific Style: Research Groups in the Chemical and by Joseph S. Fruton (1990)
"After ten years with the noted pharmacologist Hans Horst Meyer [1853- 1939] at
Marburg and Vienna, in 1908 Loewi became professor of pharmacology at Graz, ..."
3. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"... ordinarily causes vasodilation and not vasoconstriction; and von Schroeder's
results have not always been confirmed by later observers (Loewi, 1905). ..."
4. All in a Life-time by Henry Morgenthau, French Strother (1922)
"nection with Pryor's office was my becoming acquainted with Mr. Valentine Loewi,
for whom I searched the title in a mortgage transaction. ..."
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