Osler

[ohs-ler, ohz-]

noun

1. Sir William, 1849–1919, Canadian physician and professor of medicine.

Osler

/ ˈɒzlə /

noun

1. Sir William. 1849–1919, Canadian physician, pioneer of residency in medical training

Example Sentences

To do this, I’ve been taught to think in probabilities, as Osler suggested, because probability is a yardstick for uncertainty.

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As Canadian physician William Osler said, medicine is “a science of uncertainty, and an art of probability.”

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William Osler, often described as the father of modern medicine, put it like this: “Tuberculosis is a social disease with a medical aspect.”

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Writing in September of this year, law professors Rachel Barkow and Mark Osler note that “Biden has granted 25 pardons and commuted the sentences of 131 other people. … That is a mere 1.4 percent of the petitions he has received. … No modern U.S. president, going back to Richard Nixon, has had a rate so low.”

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Insurance costs have doubled for shippers moving through the Red Sea, which can add hundreds of thousands of dollars to a journey for the most expensive ships, said David Osler, insurance editor for Lloyd’s List Intelligence, which provides analysis for the global maritime industry.

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