Definition of Kaspar friedrich wolff

1. Noun. German anatomist (1733-1794).

Exact synonyms: Wolff
Generic synonyms: Anatomist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kaspar Friedrich Wolff

Kashaya
Kashgar
Kashi
Kashia
Kashin-Beck disease
Kashin-Bek disease
Kashiwabara
Kashkai
Kashmir
Kashmir goat
Kashmiri
Kashmiris
Kashub
Kashubian
Kasos
Kaspar Friedrich Wolff
Kasparian
Kasparov
Kasparyan
Kaspiane
Kasten's fluorescent Feulgen stain
Kasten's fluorescent PAS stain
Kasten's fluorescent Schiff reagents
Kastler
Kata Kolok
Kata Tjuta

Literary usage of Kaspar friedrich wolff

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

1. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"WOLFFIAN BODY (named in honor of kaspar friedrich wolff). One of the pair of excretory organs that is functional in the adult of many fishes and of Amphibia ..."

2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"... Marie FX Bichat (1771-1802), the founder of histology; Kaspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-94), whose dissertation entitled •Theoria Generationis' (1759) is ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"About a century later kaspar friedrich wolff published his important "Theoria generationis" (1759), which clearly shows that he must have observed cells in ..."

4. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"... it should be remembered, were advanced by Maupertuis more than a decade before the publication of the great work of kaspar friedrich wolff,* from which ..."

5. The History of Medicine in Its Salient Features by Walter LIBBY (1922)
"kaspar friedrich wolff (1733-94) opposed the preformation idea in his Theory of Generation, which appeared first as a doctor's thesis in 1759. ..."

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