Definition of Ehrlich

1. Noun. German bacteriologist who found a 'magic bullet' to cure syphilis and was a pioneer in the study of immunology (1854-1915).

Exact synonyms: Paul Ehrlich
Generic synonyms: Bacteriologist

Medical Definition of Ehrlich

1. Paul, German bacteriologist, immunologist, and Nobel laureate, 1854-1915. See: Ehrlichia, Ehrlich's anaemia, Ehrlich's inner body, Ehrlich's phenomenon, Ehrlich's postulate, Ehrlich's diazo reagent, Ehrlich's theory, Ehrlich-Turk line. See entries under stain; reaction. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ehrlich

Egyptological
Egyptologies
Egyptologist
Egyptologists
Egyptology
Ehadhamen
Ehime
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Ehningen
Ehrenberg
Ehrenritter
Ehrenritter's ganglion
Ehret
Ehret's phenomenon
Ehringhaus compensator
Ehrlich (current term)
Ehrlich's acid haematoxylin stain
Ehrlich's anaemia
Ehrlich's aniline crystal violet stain
Ehrlich's benzaldehyde reaction
Ehrlich's diazo reaction
Ehrlich's diazo reagent
Ehrlich's inner body
Ehrlich's phenomenon
Ehrlich's postulate
Ehrlich's theory
Ehrlich's triacid stain
Ehrlich's triple stain
Ehrlich-Turk line
Ehrlich reaction

Literary usage of Ehrlich

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pathogenic Micro-organisms: Including Bacteria and Protozoa; a Practical by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams (1905)
"Experiments Devised by Ehrlich to Show the Nature of Haemolysins. In order to give the student an idea of the methods employed by Ehrlich in developing his ..."

2. Pathogenic Micro-organisms: Including Bacteria and Protozoa; a Practical by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams (1905)
"In order to give the student an idea of the methods employed by Ehrlich in developing ... Basing his reasoning on the side-chain theory, Ehrlich argued as ..."

3. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"N,, from which Ehrlich calculated that the substance was either formyl- 1 Herm. ... Paul Ehrlich, Die medic. Wochenschr., April 1901, No. ..."

4. Emil Von Behring: Infectious Disease, Immunology, Serum Therapy by Derek S. Linton (2005)
"At the insistence of Koch, however, it was not Ehrlich, but rather his ... Ehrlich had been compelled to sign a much reduced contract with Hoechst, ..."

5. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of by Albert Henry Buck (1904)
"Ehrlich'» Diagrams Illustrating the Mechanism of Immunity and ... To make the analogy to chemical reactions, Ehrlich has likened the receptors to the ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"THE LATERAL CHAIN THEORY OF Ehrlich AS EXPLANATORY OF TOXINS, ANTITOXINS, ... Ehrlich in several recent communications has reiterated his " lateral or side ..."

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