Fabricius

[fuh-brish-ee-uhs, -brish-uhs, fah-bree-syoos]

noun

1. Johan Christian 1743–1808, Danish entomologist.

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The valves were already known, but Fabricius investigated them thoroughly and described them in detail, first in public demonstrations in 1579 and later in an accurately illustrated book published in 1603.

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Fabricius retired in 1613, because of ill health, and died in 1619.

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But he soon moved on to Padua, where he was taught by Fabricius and graduated as a doctor of medicine in 1602..

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By then, however, William Harvey, who studied under Fabricius in Padua from some time in the late 1590s to 1602, was well on the way to explaining how the blood circulation system really worked.

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One of Harvey’s key discoveries was that the valves in the veins, described so accurately by his teacher Fabricius, are one-way systems, which allow blood to flow only towards the heart, and that this blood must originate as arterial blood, which is pumped away from the heart and travels through tiny capillaries linking the arterial and venous systems to enter the veins.

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