physiologist
English Thesaurus
1. a biologist specializing in physiology (noun.person)
| instance hyponym | : | adrian, baron adrian, edgar douglas adrian, |
| definition | : | English physiologist who conducted research into the function of neurons; 1st baron of Cambridge (1889-1997) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bernard, claude bernard, |
| definition | : | French physiologist noted for research on secretions of the alimentary canal and the glycogenic function of the liver (1813-1878) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | best, c. h. best, charles herbert best, |
| definition | : | Canadian physiologist (born in the United States) who assisted F. G. Banting in research leading to the discovery of insulin (1899-1978) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | einthoven, willem einthoven, |
| definition | : | Dutch physiologist who devised the first electrocardiograph (1860-1927) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | galvani, luigi galvani, |
| definition | : | Italian physiologist noted for his discovery that frogs' muscles contracted in an electric field (which led to the galvanic cell) (1737-1798) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | haldane, john haldane, john scott haldane, |
| definition | : | Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | andrew fielding huxley, andrew huxley, huxley, |
| definition | : | English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | jacques loeb, loeb, |
| definition | : | United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | gregory goodwin pincus, gregory pincus, pincus, |
| definition | : | United States sexual physiologist whose hunch that progesterone could block ovulation led to the development of the oral contraceptive pill (1903-1967) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | schwann, theodor schwann, |
| definition | : | German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 and 1839 identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and animal tissue (1810-1882) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | lazzaro spallanzani, spallanzani, |
| definition | : | Italian physiologist who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation (1729-1799) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | e. h. weber, ernst heinrich weber, weber, |
| definition | : | German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878) (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | physiology, |
| definition | : | processes and functions of an organism (noun.attribute) |
| derivation | : | physiology, |
| definition | : | the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | physiology, |
| definition | : | processes and functions of an organism (noun.attribute) |
| derivation | : | physiology, |
| definition | : | the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms (noun.cognition) |
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