Vesalius

American  

[vi-sey-lee-uhs, -seyl-yuhs] / vɪˈseɪ li əs, -ˈseɪl yəs /

noun

1. Andreas 1514–64, Flemish anatomist.

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Vesalius British  

/ vɪˈseɪlɪəs /

noun

1. Andreas (anˈdreːas). 1514–64, Flemish anatomist, whose De Humani Corporis fabrica (1543) formed the basis of modern anatomical research and medicine

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Vesalius Scientific  

/ vĭ-sā′lē-əs /

1. Flemish anatomist and surgeon who is considered the father of modern anatomy. His rigorous descriptions of the structure of the human body, based on his own personal dissections of cadavers, established a new level of clarity and accuracy in the study of human anatomy.

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Example Sentences

Visitors can explore illustrations from some of the earliest modern anatomical texts by people such as Andreas Vesalius, a Belgian physician known as the father of human anatomy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2022

In 1543, the word made an appearance alongside an odd illustration in an anatomical atlas by Andreas Vesalius, a Flemish physician sometimes called the “father of modern anatomy.”

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2021

The topic of menstruation, which Vesalius considered the female equivalent of hemorrhoids in men, was another major source of interest for early modern readers, who would have been primarily male.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2018

In this alternative world, Copernicus would surely have published On the Revolutions, and Vesalius his 1543 treatise On the Fabric of the Human Body.

From Nature • Oct. 24, 2017

Three of the six drawings were by Vesalius himself; the other three were by John Stephen of Kalkar, a highly respected pupil of Titian, which gives you some idea of their quality.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin