Harvey

[ hahr-vee ]

noun

1. William, 1578–1657, English physician: discoverer of the circulation of the blood.
2. a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
3. a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “army” and “battle.”

Harvey

/ ˈhɑːvɪ /

noun

1. HarveyWilliam15781657MEnglishMEDICINE: physician William. 1578–1657, English physician who discovered the mechanism of blood circulation, expounded in On the motion of the heart (1628)

Harvey

/ här′vē /

1. English physician and physiologist who in 1628 demonstrated the function of the heart and the circulation of blood throughout the human body.

Biography

In the second century ce , the Greek physician Galen theorized that blood is created in the liver, passes once through the heart, and is then absorbed by bodily tissues. Galen's ideas were widely accepted in European medicine until 1628, when William Harvey published a book describing the circulation of blood throughout the body. Through his observations of human and animal dissections, Harvey saw that blood flows from one side of the heart to the other and that it flows through the lungs and returns to the heart to be pumped elsewhere. There was one missing part of the cycle: How did the blood pumped to distant body tissues get into the veins to be carried back to the heart? As an answer, Harvey offered his own, unproven theory, one that has since been shown to be true: blood passes from small, outlying arteries through tiny vessels called capillaries into the outlying veins. Harvey's views were so controversial at the time that many of his patients left his care, but his work became the basis for all modern research on the heart and blood vessels.

Example Sentences

Harvey, who was one of five women among the six authors on the Booker Prize short list, is the first woman to win the award since 2019.

From Los Angeles Times

Speaking to BBC News, Harvey said she was "in complete shock and very overwhelmed".

From BBC

Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr warned voters in July that there is "no place in our organisation for... bias, grudge-holding, or careless voting".

From BBC

In 2017, he helped rescue a woman in labor and deliver the baby while reporting on Hurricane Harvey, according to ABC13 in Houston.

From Los Angeles Times

And the other featured Mulaney playing real-life New York City Council candidate Harvey Epstein, who acknowledges in a campaign video that both his names are highly problematic.

From Los Angeles Times