Magendie

[ ma-zhahn-dee ]

noun

1. Fran·çois [f, r, ah, n, -, swa], 1783–1855, French physiologist.

Example Sentences

One of the first hints that food could contain such specific components with such specific influence over well-being came in 1816, when experimental physiologist François Magendie fed dogs a diet that was high in sugar and free of animals and plants.

From Slate

He eventually became a lab assistant to, and protégé of, François Magendie, a pioneering physiologist notorious for his experiments on—and public dissections of—living animals.

From Slate

Thus, a patient of Alonzo Clark took the equivalent of 934 grains of opium in four days; a patient of Fordyce Barker 13,969 drops of Magendie's solution in eleven days; and one of my own, at the Maternity, the equivalent of over 1700 grains of opium in seven days.73 In this latter instance the patient was to all appearance moribund when the treatment was begun.

From Project Gutenberg

Many other experiments, similar to those which have just been mentioned, were made in the mean while by Magendie, Stich, Billroth and Hufschmidt, O. Weber, Duprey, Learet, Urfrey, Saltzman, Fischer, Frese, Muller, and others.

From Project Gutenberg

Many years ago Magendie, and after him Dieffenbach, on examining the arteries of persons in the advanced stage of cholera, found those vessels empty of blood.

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