Monro

[ mən-rō′ ]

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Family of Scottish anatomists and educators, including Alexander, (1697-1767), a renowned professor of anatomy at Edinburgh University (from 1720), who helped establish Edinburgh as a center of medical training and his son Alexander, (1733-1817), who worked on methods of surgical anesthesia.

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How to use Monro in a sentence

At this moment, I almost think the last long twenty years of my life a dream, and that I am still a captain in Monro's regiment.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17|Alexander Leighton
While the one of them was talking with Monro, I perceived the other to look oddly toward me.
Folk-Lore and Legends|Anonymous
If Monro wants to find out about the enemy, Jonathan and I kin do it.
With Wolfe in Canada|G. A. Henty
If Monro and his council decide to surrender, there is an end of it.
With Wolfe in Canada|G. A. Henty

He now sent one of his aides-de-camp with a letter to Monro.
With Wolfe in Canada|G. A. Henty