Metchnikoff

[ mech-ni-kawf, -kof; Russian myech-nyi-kuhf ]

noun

1. É·lie [ey-, lee], Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel Prize in medicine 1908.

Metchnikoff

/ ˈmjetʃnikəf; mɛtʃnikɔf /

noun

1. MetchnikoffÉlie18451916MRussianSCIENCE: bacteriologist Élie (eli). 1845–1916, Russian bacteriologist in France. He formulated the theory of phagocytosis and shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1908

Example Sentences

According to Metchnikoff, this property of leukocytes resides entirely within themselves, depending upon their own vital activity.

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Metchnikoff believed that the colorless corpuscles of the blood have somewhat the same function.

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Consider man, as Metchnikoff describes him, with his overplus of sex energy.

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Doctor Metchnikoff told me in Paris that America always kills its big men with routine.

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Just had a letter from the great Metchnikoff—wants me to come over and work in the Pasteur!

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