Florey

They were written at an interval of about ten years: the first from Foston, the second from Combe Florey.
A Letter Book|George Saintsbury
Lady Holland relates a practical joke of her father's, which the witty canon carried out at his rectory of Combe Florey.
Heads and Tales|Various
I had passed Florey the butler, gray and sphynx-like in the hallway, spoke to him as ever, and turned through the library door.
Kastle Krags|Absalom Martin
Testimony has gone to show that Florey was dead, not just severely wounded, when you and the others reached his side.
Kastle Krags|Absalom Martin

Instinctively we went first to the place on the shore where Florey had been slain the night before.
Kastle Krags|Absalom Martin

British Dictionary definitions for Florey

Florey

/ (ˈflɔːrɪ) /

noun

Howard Walter, Baron Florey. 1898–1968, Australian pathologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1945) with E. B. Chain and Alexander Fleming for their work on penicillin

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Medical definitions for Florey

Florey

[ flôr′ē ]

Howard Walter 1898-1968

Australian-born British pathologist. He shared a 1945 Nobel Prize for isolating and purifying penicillin.

Scientific definitions for Florey

Florey

[ flôr′ē ]

Sir Howard Walter. Baron Florey of Adelaide 1898-1968

Australian-born British pathologist who developed and purified penicillin with Ernst Chain in 1939. For this work, Florey and Chain shared a 1945 Nobel Prize with Alexander Fleming, who first discovered the antibiotic in 1928. Florey also supervised the clinical testing and mass production of the drug in the United States.