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Morgagni

American  
[mawr-gah-nyee] / mɔrˈgɑ nyi /

noun

  1. Giovanni Battista 1682–1771, Italian anatomist.


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Koch, together with Battista Morgagni, René Laënnec and others led the scientific charge against this once mysterious infection: this was continental European medicine in its heyday, triumphant in its powerful ability to discover.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2012

But her history was bad �a Latzko Caesarean section for Bandl's ring and toxemia�and we found a hydatid of Morgagni then.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of the moderns, Lister and Morgagni were 85 years old at death.

From Time Magazine Archive

He chose as his subject John Baptist Morgagni, the distinguished Italian physician and original investigator of the eighteenth century, whom he hailed as the Father of Pathology.

From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

The foss� Morgagni and the posterior aspect of the soft palate are more frequently affected in the same way than the anterior aspect.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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