Carroll
[ kar-uhl ]
/ ˈkær əl /
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noun
Charles, 1737–1832, American patriot and legislator.
Lewis, pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
Also Carrol. a male or female given name.
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Carroll
/ (ˈkærəl) /
noun
Lewis. real name the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. 1832–98, English writer; an Oxford mathematics don who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872) and the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876)
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Medical definitions for Carroll
Carroll
[ kăr′əl ]
British-born American physician noted for his research on yellow fever. In 1900 he deliberately infected himself with the disease for experimental purposes.
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