Oken

[ oh-kuhn ]

noun

1. Lorenz Lorenz Ockenfuss, 1779–1851, German naturalist and philosopher.

Example Sentences

After Oken's work the vertebral theory was taken up generally by both the German and the French anatomists.

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These discoveries were confirmed and extended for the 135chick by the embryologist Huschke, a pupil of Oken.

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He superadded the evolutionary theories of Oken, which were equally idealistic, but were altogether repugnant to Cuvier.

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Goethe and Oken discovered at the same time the vertebral system.

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It was to a certain extent, however, thrown into disrepute by various fantastic theories with which Oken surrounded it.

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