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Morgagni

American  
[mawr-gah-nyee] / mɔrˈgɑ nyi /

noun

  1. Giovanni Battista 1682–1771, Italian anatomist.


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Koch, together with Battista Morgagni, René Laënnec and others led the scientific charge against this once mysterious infection: this was continental European medicine in its heyday, triumphant in its powerful ability to discover.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2012

Of the moderns, Lister and Morgagni were 85 years old at death.

From Time Magazine Archive

But her history was bad �a Latzko Caesarean section for Bandl's ring and toxemia�and we found a hydatid of Morgagni then.

From Time Magazine Archive

This would seem to point to the fact that Morgagni suspected there were other connections between the special senses and important organs besides those which had been discovered by anatomists up to that time.

From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

Like many another great man, Morgagni seems to have been especially fortunate in his mother.

From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)