Bordet

[ bawr-dey; French bawr-de ]

noun

1. Jules Jean Baptiste Vin·cent [zh, y, l zhah, n, b, a, -, teest, va, n, -, sahn], 1870–1961, Belgian physiologist and bacteriologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1919.

Bordet

/ bɔrdɛ /

noun

1. BordetJules (Jean Baptiste Vincent)18701961MBelgianSCIENCE: bacteriologistSCIENCE: immunologist Jules ( Jean Baptiste Vincent ) (ʒyl). 1870–1961, Belgian bacteriologist and immunologist, who discovered complement. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1919

Example Sentences

Jean-François Bordet, a Chablis producer in the picturesque riverside village of Maligny, said local winemakers were struggling even before the COVID-19 crisis, as bad weather hit three out of the last four grape harvests.

From Los Angeles Times

“Over the long term, having a pregnancy is safe,” said lead study author Matteo Lambertini, an oncologist at the Institut Jules Bordet in Brussels.

From Washington Post

In many cases “the informed consent is 20 pages of nothing”, says Harry Bleiberg, an oncologist formerly at the Jules Bordet Institute in Brussels who is now a medical consultant for the pharmaceutical industry.

From Nature

The first substantive mention of pertussis came on Aug. 23, 1913, in an article that began, “It has just been definitely established that whooping cough is caused by a germ which has been named the bacillus pertussis by Bordet and Gengou, its discoverers.”

From New York Times

Dr. Hatem Azim of the Institute Jules Bordet in Belgium and colleagues analyzed results from 14 previous trials that followed more than 1,400 pregnant women with a history of breast cancer.

From Seattle Times