Virchow
Americannoun
noun
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This is why, just eight days after his investigation in Upper Silesia, Dr. Virchow went to the barricades in Berlin to fight for the revolution.
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2021
At Virchow hospital in Berlin, doctors not only stopped shaking hands with their patients - even non-contagious ones - but are actively encouraging them to follow the example as cases in Germany hit 66.
From Washington Times • Mar. 1, 2020
In 1885 Rudolf Virchow stated that new cells are produced only from the division of existing cells.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
She then gives an insightful historical account starting from nineteenth-century giants including Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow.
From Nature • Jun. 7, 2016
Of particular interest to a brainy, idealistic youth such as Farmer, Virchow helped define the field of medical anthropology—the study of human health and disease and public health care systems.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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