Metchnikoff
É·lie [French ey-lee], /French eɪˈli/, Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel Prize in medicine 1908.
- Russian Mechnikov.
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As Metchnikoff expected, the mesodermal cells surrounded the thorns, proving his theory.
The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze - Issue 100: Outsiders | Lina Zeldovich | May 19, 2021 | NautilusIn 1908, Metchnikoff won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering phagocytic cells and their role in the human immune system.
The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze - Issue 100: Outsiders | Lina Zeldovich | May 19, 2021 | NautilusThe cholera drink didn’t sicken Metchnikoff, so he let a volunteer from his lab repeat the test.
The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze - Issue 100: Outsiders | Lina Zeldovich | May 19, 2021 | NautilusAt the same time that Metchnikoff’s ideas about rebalancing the microbes in the gut were taking hold, a powerful current in medicine was running against them.
The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze - Issue 100: Outsiders | Lina Zeldovich | May 19, 2021 | NautilusWhen the first volunteer didn’t contract cholera either, Metchnikoff didn’t hesitate to accept an offer from a second one.
The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze - Issue 100: Outsiders | Lina Zeldovich | May 19, 2021 | Nautilus
According to Metchnikoff, this property of leukocytes resides entirely within themselves, depending upon their own vital activity.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddMetchnikoff believed that the colorless corpuscles of the blood have somewhat the same function.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterConsider man, as Metchnikoff describes him, with his overplus of sex energy.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton SinclairDoctor Metchnikoff told me in Paris that America always kills its big men with routine.
Why Marry? | Jesse Lynch WilliamsJust had a letter from the great Metchnikoff—wants me to come over and work in the Pasteur!
Why Marry? | Jesse Lynch Williams
British Dictionary definitions for Metchnikoff
/ (French mɛtʃnikɔf, Russian ˈmjetʃnikəf) /
Élie (eli). 1845–1916, Russian bacteriologist in France. He formulated the theory of phagocytosis and shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1908
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