Definition of Eijkman

1. Noun. Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi is caused by a nutritional deficiency (1858-1930).

Exact synonyms: Christiaan Eijkman
Generic synonyms: Doc, Doctor, Dr., Md, Medico, Physician

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eijkman

Eicken's method
Eid
Eid al-Adha
Eid al-Fitr
Eid ul-Adha
Eid ul-Fitr
Eider
Eifel
Eiffel
Eiffel Tower
Eigen
Eight
Eight Section Brocade
Eighteenth Amendment
Eighty Years' War
Eijkman (current term)
Eileen
Eileen Farrell
Eilenberg-MacLane space
Eilenberg-MacLane spaces
Eimer
Eimeria of cattle
Eimeria of chickens
Eimeria of geese
Eimeria of pheasants
Eimeria of rabbits
Eimeria of sheep and goats
Eimeria of swine
Eimeria of turkeys
Eimeria sardinae

Literary usage of Eijkman

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

1. The Vitamins by Henry Clapp Sherman, Sybil Laura Smith (1922)
"Eijkman, C. 1900. Nutritional poly- neuritis. Arch. Hyg. 58, 150. Eijkman, C. 1911. ... Arch. Schiffs.- Tropen. Hyg. 15, 098. Eijkman, C. and van ..."

2. Elements of Water Bacteriology: With Special Reference to Sanitary Water by Samuel Cate Prescott, Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (1913)
"... 1901) The Eijkman Test. Another enrichment test, which has been extensively used in Germany for checking the development of overgrowing forms and ..."

3. Transactions of the fifteenth International congress on hygiene and by Albert Hassell (1913)
"They can be extracted by means of water (Eijkman), or neutral (Eijkman), or acid alcohol (Fraser and Stanton, Shiga and Kusama), and prevent the disease, ..."

4. The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition: The Use of Food for the Preservation of by Elmer Verner McCollum (1922)
"Eijkman tested the hypothesis that a high starch content in the diet ... These experiments of Eijkman, Grijns, Holst and Schaumann established the fact that ..."

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