Bichat

[ bee-sha ]

noun

1. Ma·rie Fran·çois Xa·vier [m, a, -, ree, f, r, ah, n, -, swa, gz, a, -, vyey], 1771–1802, French physician.

Example Sentences

It was also applied in many ways by Bichat, who enjoyed a brief, though memorable, career.

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Francois Bichat, born in 1771, earned high rank both as a clinician and an anatomist.

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Bichat was not a comparative anatomist; his interest lay in human anatomy, normal and pathological.

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Bichat supposes the black matter in the lungs "to be owing to small bronchial glands extending along the surface of the pleura."

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A book lay open for a Bichat if he had repaired thither fasting and collected.

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