Erasistratus

[ er-uh-sis-truh-tuh s ]

/ ˌɛr əˈsɪs trə təs /

c300–250 b.c., Greek physician and physiologist.

Example sentences from the Web for erasistratus

Two great names of that school, Herophilus and Erasistratus, we must consider elsewhere.

The Legacy of Greece |Various
One might obviously say that they draw their supply from the veins.213 But Erasistratus will not have it so.

On the Natural Faculties |Galen
But they certainly will not abandon their reverence for Erasistratus.

On the Natural Faculties |Galen
Herophilus and Erasistratus were distinguished physicians and anatomists, and the authors of several medical works.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 |Various

Now Erasistratus ought not to have been ignorant of this if he had ever had anything to do with the Peripateticseven in a dream.

On the Natural Faculties |Galen

Erasistratus

[ ĕr′ə-sĭs′trə-təs ]

fl. c. 250 bc

Greek physician and anatomist. Through observation and dissection he advanced the understanding of the brain, heart, and motor and sensory nerves.