Definition of Schwann

1. Noun. German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 and 1839 identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and animal tissue (1810-1882).

Exact synonyms: Theodor Schwann
Generic synonyms: Histologist, Physiologist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Schwann

Schumpeter
Schumpeterian
Schutz' bundle
Schutz' law
Schutz rule
Schutzian
Schutzstaffel
Schuyler
Schwabach test
Schwalbe
Schwalbe's corpuscle
Schwalbe's nucleus
Schwalbe's ring
Schwalbes
Schwann
Schwann cell
Schwann cell unit
Schwartz
Schwartz tractotomy
Schwartzmann reaction
Schwarz inequality
Schwarzenegger
Schwarzeneggeresque
Schwarzeneggerian
Schwarzeneggers
Schwarzian
Schwarzian derivative
Schwarzian derivatives

Literary usage of Schwann

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

1. Biology and Its Makers by William Albert Locy (1908)
"schwann.—The personalities of the co-founders of the cell-theory are interesting. schwann was a man of gentle, pacific disposition, who avoided all ..."

2. The Library of Original Sources by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1907)
"THEODOR schwann THEODOR schwann was born at Neuss in Prussia, Dec. ... schwann died Jan. u, 1882. CELL THEORY The whole of the foregoing investigation has ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"Schleiden in 1838, and schwann in 1839, published most important generalisations on the cellular structure of vegetable arid animal organisms. ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1837)
"schwann has decided the important and problematical question of the contractility ... schwann has also discovered that the capillaries have an elastic coat, ..."

5. A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century by John Theodore Merz (1903)
"These merits of schwann, which attach more to the tam-" conception of " metabolism" than to ... The cell of to-day is not the cell as schwann conceived it. ..."

6. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1842)
"By M. schwann.-J- M. schwann'S discoveries must be ranked among the most ... These bases or foundations do, however, exist; and M. schwann in his work has ..."

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