Paget

[ paj-it ]

noun

1. Sir James, 1814–99, English surgeon and pathologist.

Paget

/ păj′ĭt /

1. British surgeon and researcher who was a pioneer of modern pathology. He discovered the cause of trichinosis in 1834, reported on diseases of the bones and joints, and described Paget's disease.

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Paget finally had been struck in his right leg by a cannon shot.

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He had joined local firefighters in saving the Paget portrait.

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Paget, like the French, found not one single shred of evidence to support any of them.

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It is said that Paget has ordered a certain number of sheep and cattle to be slaughtered daily for the brigade.

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More prisoners came in, and also our old friends the Munsters, and General Paget.

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Mrs. Paget was seldom admitted to family counsels, and felt herself something of a stranger in her sister's house.

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Mr. Paget filled different situations in the ministry afterwards, and was repeatedly subjected to ecclesiastical censures.

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Lady Alfred Paget is badly coloured, and looks in an incipient stage of blue cholera.

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