Cajal

British  

/ kaˈxal /

noun

1. Santiago Ramon y. 1852–1934, Spanish histologist, a pioneer of modern neurophysiology: shared the Nobel prize for medicine 1906.

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Example Sentences

As a Fulbright Scholar, Dawn M. Hunter spent weeks at the Cajal Legacy exhibit, a collection of Santiago Ramn y Cajal’s original works, personal items and death mask at the Cajal Institute in Spain.

From Scientific American

Even the color palette is an ode to Cajal, inspired by the color schemes in some of his artistic works, Hunter says.

From Scientific American

The swirls and lines in the middle of the piece are inspired by Cajal’s own drawing of a nerve sliced open.

From Scientific American

Stepping back, seemingly mirrored profiles of Cajal himself emerge from dark sides of the drawing, traced from the shadow of his death mask.

From Scientific American

A web of plants cut through the right profile, and a snake rears from the left, both references to the cover of Cajal’s 1906 Nobel Prize–winning work on the structure of the nervous system.

From Scientific American