Metchnikoff

[ mech-ni-kawf, -kof; Russian myech-nyi-kuhf ]

/ ˌmɛtʃ nɪˈkɔf, -ˌkɒf; Russian ˈmyɛtʃ nyɪ kəf /

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noun

É·lie

[French ey-lee], /French eɪˈli/, Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, 1845–1916, Russian zoologist and bacteriologist in France: Nobel Prize in medicine 1908.

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Russian Mechnikov.

Words nearby Metchnikoff

métayer, Metazoa, metazoan, metazoonosis, Metcalfe's law, Metchnikoff, mete, metecdysis, metempirical, metempirics, metempsychosis

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How to use Metchnikoff in a sentence

When the first volunteer didn’t contract cholera either, Metchnikoff didn’t hesitate to accept an offer from a second one.
The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze - Issue 100: Outsiders|Lina Zeldovich|May 19, 2021|Nautilus
When Metchnikoff took his experiments into the petri dish to find out what caused such a marked difference, he discovered that some microbes hindered the cholera growth while others stimulated it.
The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze - Issue 100: Outsiders|Lina Zeldovich|May 19, 2021|Nautilus
As Metchnikoff expected, the mesodermal cells surrounded the thorns, proving his theory.
The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze - Issue 100: Outsiders|Lina Zeldovich|May 19, 2021|Nautilus
The cholera drink didn’t sicken Metchnikoff, so he let a volunteer from his lab repeat the test.
The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze - Issue 100: Outsiders|Lina Zeldovich|May 19, 2021|Nautilus

In 1908, Metchnikoff won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering phagocytic cells and their role in the human immune system.
The Man Who Drank Cholera and Launched the Yogurt Craze - Issue 100: Outsiders|Lina Zeldovich|May 19, 2021|Nautilus
According to Metchnikoff, this property of leukocytes resides entirely within themselves, depending upon their own vital activity.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Metchnikoff believed that the colorless corpuscles of the blood have somewhat the same function.
A Civic Biology|George William Hunter
Consider man, as Metchnikoff describes him, with his overplus of sex energy.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society|Upton Sinclair
Doctor Metchnikoff told me in Paris that America always kills its big men with routine.
Why Marry?|Jesse Lynch Williams
Just had a letter from the great Metchnikoff—wants me to come over and work in the Pasteur!
Why Marry?|Jesse Lynch Williams

British Dictionary definitions for Metchnikoff

Metchnikoff

/ (French mɛtʃnikɔf, Russian ˈmjetʃnikəf) /

noun

Élie (eli). 1845–1916, Russian bacteriologist in France. He formulated the theory of phagocytosis and shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1908

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Medical definitions for Metchnikoff

Metchnikoff

[ mĕch′nĭ-kôf′ ]

Elie 1845-1916

Russian zoologist. He shared a 1908 Nobel Prize for the discovery of phagocytes and their role in the immune system.