Charcot
Americannoun
-
Jean Baptiste Étienne Auguste 1867–1936, French explorer.
-
his father Jean Martin 1825–93, French neuropathologist.
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
In the same time period, French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot suggested that patients experiencing symptoms associated with what doctors then called "hysteria" perhaps actually had a history of trauma.
From Salon • Mar. 9, 2023
Both men had studied under Jean-Martin Charcot, who believed that hysteria could arise from traumatic events as well as from physiological causes.
From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019
Thereafter, between studying with neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot at Salpêtrière Hospital, he returned to Notre Dame “every free afternoon” to be in its presence.
From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2019
She has diabetes and was also diagnosed with Charcot foot.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2018
Soon after the experiments of Charcot and his associates in Paris were published, Prof. Bernheim commenced a most thorough and important study of the subject in the wards of the hospital at Nancy.
From Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by Mason, R. Osgood
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
