Krafft-Ebing
[ kraft-eb-ing, krahft-; German krahft-ey-bingk ]
/ ˈkræftˈɛb ɪŋ, ˈkrɑft-; German ˈkrɑftˈeɪ bɪŋk /
noun
Rich·ard [rich-erd; German rikh-ahrt], /ˈrɪtʃ ərd; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/, Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
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Krafft-Ebing
/ (German ˈkraftˈeːbɪŋ) /
noun
Richard (ˈrɪçart), Baron von Krafft-Ebing. 1840–1902, German neurologist and psychiatrist who pioneered the systematic study of sexual behaviour in Psychopathia Sexualis (1886)
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