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Morgagni

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[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

There are traditions of Morgagni, the distinguished father of modern pathology, as Virchow hailed him, which show that never a day passed without his raising his heart in prayer.

From Religion And Health by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

His scarcely less famous successor, Clement XIII, had often consulted Morgagni professionally at Padua before his elevation to the See of Rome.

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