Erlanger

[ ur-lang-er ]

/ ˈɜr læŋ ər /

noun

Joseph,1874–1965, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1944.

a city in N Kentucky.

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Examples from the Web for erlanger

Meals à la carte and quite inexpensive; cuisine purely German, homely and wholesome, with excellent beer, especially Erlanger.
The Gourmet's Guide to Europe|Algernon Bastard
Erlanger gave it a most lavish production and announced it for a long run.
Nat Goodwin's Book|Nat C. Goodwin
He then became producing stage director for Klaw and Erlanger.
The Art of Stage Dancing|Ned Wayburn
Frohman, who always saw a joke in everything, hatched a scheme by which Erlanger was to be photographed for him.
Charles Frohman: Manager and Man|Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman

Klaw and Erlanger also furnished transportation back to New York for such as were at liberty to go.
Chicago's Awful Theater Horror|Various

British Dictionary definitions for erlanger

Erlanger

/ (ˈɜːlæŋə) /

noun

Joseph. 1874–1965, US physiologist. He shared a Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1944) with Gasser for their work on the electrical signs of nervous activity

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Medicine definitions for erlanger

Erlanger

[ ûr′lăng′ər ]

Joseph 1874-1965

American physiologist. He shared a 1944 Nobel Prize for developing methods of recording electrical nerve impulses and for his studies on synaptic function.