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Golgi

[ gohl-jee, gawl-jee ]

noun

  1. Ca·mil·lo [kah-, meel, -law], 1843?–1926, Italian physician and histologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1906.


Golgi

/ ˈɡɔldʒi /

noun

  1. GolgiCamillo18441926MItalianSCIENCE: neurologistSCIENCE: histologist Camillo (kaˈmillo). 1844–1926, Italian neurologist and histologist, noted for his work on the central nervous system and his discovery in animal cells of the bodies known by his name: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1906


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After these additions are made, the Golgi apparatus packages up the modified proteins and lipids, then ships them in sacs known as vesicles to where they will be needed in the body.

The method of Golgi for the investigation of the nervous system, introduced in 1875, must also be mentioned here.

This is the cycle, as described by Golgi, of the tertian and quartan parasite.

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