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  • proper noun A German surname.

Etymologies

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From German Mauthner

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Examples

  • Mauthner and Saussure, for example, he thought were so wrong they barely warranted engaging with.

    Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Cristaudo, Wayne 2008

  • On the other hand, (Mauthner 1946), (van Benthem 1986), (van Benthem 1989), and (Tarski 1986), defend semantic ways to mark that difference.

    Logic and Ontology Hofweber, Thomas 2004

  • Mauthner finally concluded that all that was possible was a kind of godless mystical contemplation of the world.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas RICHARD H. POPKIN 1968

  • Canadian lawyer Andrew J. Orkin and three family members say the Nazis took the masterpiece from Orkin's German great-grandmother, Margarete Mauthner, during World War II, and they are demanding that Taylor return the artwork to them.

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2011

  • The secondary motoneurons rest quietly while all this is going on, but after Mauthner passes them, they should also jump up and start moving across the field, passing over the red ribbon but clinging to the blue, eventually diverging from it to explore their own little patches of the field.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • The Mauthner and primary motoneurons grew first, but the Mauthner had a long way to go, so in each segment primary motoneurons sent out growth cones, then the Mauthner axon arrived, and then after it had passed by, the secondary motoneurons sent out their growth cones.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • I was particularly interested in how descending outputs from the hindbrain, especially the Mauthner cell, connected to the segmental motoneurons of spinal cord.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • Primary motoneuron growth cones are initially huge and expansive, so the blue dancers should be outdoing the Mauthner cell as they move.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • At the goal line is a single dancer in red, representing the Mauthner growth cone.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • Then I determined that the Mauthner axon seemed to only contact the primary motoneurons; I also, with

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

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