Definition of Rudolf Virchow

1. Noun. German pathologist who recognized that all cells come from cells by binary fission and who emphasized cellular abnormalities in disease (1821-1902).

Exact synonyms: Rudolf Karl Virchow, Virchow
Generic synonyms: Diagnostician, Pathologist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rudolf Virchow

Rudbeckia hirta
Rudbeckia laciniata
Rudbeckia laciniata hortensia
Rudbeckia serotina
Rudge
Rudolf Bultmann
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel
Rudolf Diesel
Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Karl Bultmann
Rudolf Karl Virchow
Rudolf Ludwig Mossbauer
Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Serkin
Rudolf Virchow (current term)
Rudolf Wurlitzer
Rudolph
Rudolph Laban
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolphine
Rudra
Rudy
Rudyard
Rudyard Kipling
Ruffini's corpuscle
Ruffini's corpuscles
Rufiji
Rufous rubber cup
Rufus

Literary usage of Rudolf Virchow

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

1. Troja: Results of the Latest Researches and Discoveries on the Site of Homer by Heinrich Schliemann, Archibald Henry Sayce (1884)
"BY PROFESSOR Rudolf Virchow. THE bone-chest contained, unfortunately, so great a number of bones some quite freshly broken in pieces, and consequently no ..."

2. A Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography: Comprising the Lives of Eminent by Howard Atwood Kelly (1912)
"Among bis articles are found : "Ligations for the Cure of Aneurysm," 1884 "Rudolf Virchow," 1893. "Surgery of the Head and Neck," 1898. H. G, JR. ..."

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