Flexner

[ fleks-ner ]

/ ˈflɛks nər /

noun

Abraham,1866–1959, U.S. educator.

his brother Simon, 1863–1946, U.S. pathologist and bacteriologist.

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Mr. Flexner is the medical school inspector of the Carnegie Foundation.

Why We Punctuate |William Livingston Klein
It is one of the most frequent and fatal of what Flexner described a decade ago as "terminal infections."

Preventable Diseases |Woods Hutchinson
Large-hearted men like Dr. Flexner and his associates do not permit unnecessary pain to defenceless animals.

Random Reminiscences of Men and Events |John D. Rockefeller
Miss Flexner, of the Louisville free public library, then spoke of an experience in placing books in a county jail.

Papers and proceedings of the thirty-fifth general meeting of the American Library Association, 1913 |Various

Like disciplines, professions have unique characteristics, as defined by Flexner.

Nursing as Caring |Anne Boykin

Medical definitions for flexner

Flexner

[ flĕks′nər ]

Simon 1863-1946

American microbiologist who isolated the bacillus of dysentery (1900), developed a serum for cerebrospinal meningitis (1907), and led the team that identified the cause of poliomyelitis.

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Flexner

noun

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Medical definitions for flexner