Cori

[kawr-ee, kohr-ee]

noun

Carl Ferdinand,1896–1984, and his wife, Gerty Theresa, 1896–1957, U.S. biochemists, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.

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Examples from the Web for cori

Contemporary Examples of cori

When Reprieve lawyer Cori Crider first met Hisham Sliti, she wore a hijab out of respect for his religion.
The Faces of Guantánamo
Molly Crabapple
September 3, 2013

Historical Examples of cori

He would give some to Cori, who had younger children, and she would give them most of the gift.
The Forgotten Planet
Murray Leinster
She gave the child to Cori and confidently moved to follow him.
The Forgotten Planet
Murray Leinster
Cori followed because she had children, and they were safer where Burl led than anywhere else.
The Forgotten Planet
Murray Leinster
At all events, we may be sure that it is of far later date than Cori and Alatri.
Studies of Travel: Italy
Edward A. Freeman
But the whole range of the wall of Cori is not of this primitive sort.
Studies of Travel: Italy
Edward A. Freeman

British Dictionary definitions for cori

Cori

noun

Carl Ferdinand. 1896–1984, US biochemist, born in Bohemia; shared a Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1947) with his wife Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori (1896–1957) and Bernardo Houssay, for elucidating the stages of glycolysis

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cori in Medicine

Cori

[kôr′ē]Gerty Theresa Radnitz 1896-1957

Czech-born American biochemist. She shared a 1947 Nobel Prize with her husband, Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896-1984), and Bernardo A. Houssay for discovering the intermediate steps in glycogen-glucose conversion.