Einthoven

American  

[ahynt-hoh-vuhn] / ˈaɪntˌhoʊ vən /

noun

1. Willem 1860–1927, Dutch physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1924.

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Einthoven British  

/ ˈɛɪnthoːvə /

noun

1. Willem. 1860–1927, Dutch physiologist. A pioneer of electrocardiography, he was awarded the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1924

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Example Sentences

To Dr. Willcm Einthoven, physiological researcher of Leyden University, Holland, went the Nobel Prize for outstanding achievement in Medicine and Physics during 1924.

From Time Magazine Archive

Willem Einthoven, 67, famed professor of heart diseases, winner of the 1924 Nobel prize for medicine; in Amsterdam, Holland.

From Time Magazine Archive

This coil, then, with the thermo-couple at its lower extremity, is hung between the ends of a powerful magnet much as the fibre of the Einthoven Galvanometer is situated.

From Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science by Corbin, Thomas W.

The very elaborate and delicate electrocardiograph with the string galvanometer devised by Einthoven is used.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall

There is the “indistinct vision” theory of Einthoven; the “perspective” theory of Hering, Guye, Thiéry, and others; the “contrast” theory of Helmholtz, Loeb, and Heyman; and the “contrast-confluxion” theory of Müller-Lyer.

From Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications by Luckiesh, Matthew