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Meissner

(mīs′nər)Georg 1829-1905
  1. German physiologist and anatomist known for his microscopic investigations of the skin and the vestibular and cochlear nerves.
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Historical Examples

  • Meissner records a similar augmentation in Polygonum orientale.

    Vegetable Teratology

    Maxwell T. Masters

  • Sometimes Meissner would work with great ease, sometimes with difficulty.

    Methods of Authors

    Hugo Erichsen

  • The man had said he was a Socialist, but Meissner did not believe him.

    Jimmie Higgins

    Upton Sinclair

  • Meissner exhibited the roll, and Jimmie stared with wide-open eyes.

    Jimmie Higgins

    Upton Sinclair

  • Such were to me the few brief moments in which I stood upon the Meissner hill that overhangs my native city.