Wassermann

[ wah-ser-muhn; German vahs-uhr-mahn ]

noun

1. Au·gust von [ou, -g, oo, st f, uh, n], 1866–1925, German physician and bacteriologist.
2. Ja·kob [yah, -kawp], 1873–1934, German novelist.

Example Sentences

Wassermann made several eosin preparations, by coupling the sodium derivative with potassium selenocyanide.

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Wassermann, Keysser and Wassermann made experiments with it, chemotherapeutically, on animal tumors.

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Imagine estimating philosophers by their chest expansions, their blood pressures, their Wassermann reactions!

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Three men—Wassermann, Ehrlich, and Noguchi—have supplied the knowledge whereby the evil may be attacked.

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Herr Wassermann, one of the cleverest of my former pupils, played my Concertante with me.

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