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  • proper noun A surname.

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Italian

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Examples

  • He called Morgagni his master, though he had himself made numerous discoveries relating to the frame of man.

    The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

  • He called Morgagni his master, though he had himself made numerous discoveries relating to the frame of man.

    Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 14: Switzerland Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • He called Morgagni his master, though he had himself made numerous discoveries relating to the frame of man.

    The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • With Morgagni, the humoral theory began to be replaced by an idea of the human body as a complex machinery of interrelated parts, or systems of parts, working harmoniously together.

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • Giovanni Battista Morgagni 1682-1771, the founder of pathological anatomy, also supposed this bone was the culprit; but neither could say exactly what the problem was.

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • With Morgagni, the humoral theory began to be replaced by an idea of the human body as a complex machinery of interrelated parts, or systems of parts, working harmoniously together.

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • Giovanni Battista Morgagni 1682-1771, the founder of pathological anatomy, also supposed this bone was the culprit; but neither could say exactly what the problem was.

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

  • After Morgagni had looked to the organs as the seat of diseases, after Bichat (1771-1802) had pointed to the tissues, Virchow declared the cells responsible for the body's health and disease.

    HEALTH AND DISEASE OWSEI TEMKIN 1968

  • As the title of his book indicates, Morgagni traced the symptoms back to lesions in the organs, something surgeons had usually done.

    HEALTH AND DISEASE OWSEI TEMKIN 1968

  • Padua, where in 1771 he succeeded Morgagni in the chair of anatomy.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

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