Definition of Sir Ronald Ross

1. Noun. British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932).

Exact synonyms: Ross
Generic synonyms: Doc, Doctor, Dr., Md, Medico, Physician

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir Ronald Ross

Sir Peter Brian Medawar
Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Ustinov
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Ralph David Richardson
Sir Rex Harrison
Sir Richard Burton
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Sir Richard Owen
Sir Richrd Steele
Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler
Sir Robert Peel
Sir Robert Robinson
Sir Robert Walpole
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister
Sir Ronald Ross (current term)
Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sir Seretse Khama
Sir Stephen Harold Spender
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan
Sir Thomas Gresham
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas More
Sir Thomas Raffles
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
Sir Thomas Wyat
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sir Tim Rice
Sir Tom Stoppard

Literary usage of Sir Ronald Ross

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

1. My Table-cloths; a Few Reminiscences by Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1916)
"Ever most sincerely yours, " RUBERT BOYCE." Lieut .-Colonel Sir Ronald Ross, of mosquito fame, came to dine at Sir Rubert Boyce's in Liverpool, ..."

2. A Half Century of Public Health: Jubilee Historical Volume of the American by American Public Health Association (1921)
"Unlike Sir Patrick Manson and Sir Ronald Ross, on whom honors have been showered, and who are still living to enjoy the fame that has come to them, ..."

3. Scotland of the Scots by G. R. Blake (1918)
"Sir Ronald Ross (b. 1857), poet and scientist, was the first to trace this curious life-cycle and to prove that the malarial parasites are first found in ..."

4. Experiments on Animals by Stephen Paget (1903)
"Sir Ronald Ross, IMS, set to work in India, keeping and feeding vast numbers ... In August 1897, Sir Ronald Ross found bodies, containing pigment like that ..."

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