Elion

American  

[el-ee-uhn, -on] / ˈɛl i ən, -ˌɒn /

noun

1. Gertrude Belle, 1918–99, U.S. pharmacologist: Nobel Prize 1988.

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Elion Scientific  

/ ĕl′ē-ən,-ŏn′ /

1. American pharmacologist who, with George Hitchings, developed drugs to treat leukemia and malaria, gout, herpes, and urinary and respiratory tract infections. She and Hitchings shared with Sir James Black the 1988 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

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Elion

Elion focused on purines, which are key components of DNA and which contain oxygen.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Aspiring auto mechanics might spend two or three years as a lube-technician before even being offered an apprenticeship, says Elion Seitllari, an Automotive Instructor at Truman College in Chicago.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2017

His mental coach, Julie Elion, had been telling him for several weeks that he should be tested for Lyme disease.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2017

He was awarded the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1988, along with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2016

Camillus was the name of the chief God, Cham-El, the same as Elion, ὁ ὑψιστος.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

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