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Bordet

American  
[bawr-dey, bawr-de] / bɔrˈdeɪ, bɔrˈdɛ /

noun

  1. Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent 1870–1961, Belgian physiologist and bacteriologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1919.


Bordet British  
/ bɔrdɛ /

noun

  1. Jules ( Jean Baptiste Vincent ) (ʒyl). 1870–1961, Belgian bacteriologist and immunologist, who discovered complement. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1919

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Psychosociologist Joelle Bordet, 72, said she thought the word "reconciliation" was "too strong".

From Barron's Oct. 11, 2025

Next to Bordet was Nour-Eddine Skiker, head of the "Jalons pour la paix" association, some of whose volunteers came with a local youth council group to lend a hand.

From Barron's Oct. 11, 2025

Tournefort was advancing cautiously up the Rue Bordet; Chauvelin, equally stealthily, was coming down the same street, and Rateau, once more walking quite leisurely, was at equal distance between the two.

From The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

Analyze the Scandinavian forms Solen, Bordet, and brennast.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

It is interesting that the mode of action of the serum in destroying bacteria was demonstrated not by a German but by Bordet, a French observer and a pupil of Metschnikoff.

From Disease and Its Causes by William Thomas Councilman

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