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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Example Sentences

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

Overcoats — the two-woman group Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell — harmonize constantly and consonantly in the style of old-line country brother acts, from the Stanley Brothers to the Everly Brothers.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 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

The Canaanitish term Elion is a compound of Eli On, both titles of the Sun: hence the former is often joined with Aur, and Orus.

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