Axelrod

[ ak-suh l-rod ]
/ ˈæk səlˌrɒd /

noun

Julius,1912–2004, U.S. biochemist and pharmacologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1970.

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Axelrod
/ (ˈæksəlrɒd) /

noun

Julius. 1912–2004, US neuropharmacologist, renowned for his work on catecholamines. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (with von Euler and Bernard Katz) 1970
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Medical definitions for axelrod

Axelrod
[ ăk′səl-rŏd′ ]
Julius 1912-2004

American biochemist and pharmacologist. He shared a 1970 Nobel Prize for studies of the ways in which different substances affect neural impulses.
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