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Definition of Hodgkin
1. Noun. English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866).
2. Noun. English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994).
3. Noun. English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998).
Definition of Hodgkin
1. Proper noun. (surname patronymic from=given names) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hodgkin
Literary usage of Hodgkin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1835)
"By Dr. Hodgkin and Dr. RUPPELL. Dr. Hodgkin and Dr. ... Dr. Hodgkin also laid
before the Section the Fasciculi published by Dr. ..."
2. American Book Prices Current (1913)
"Present State of England as to the Coin and Hodgkin (JE). ... Hodgkin (Thomas).
Italy and Her Invaders, 376-814. Oxford, 1880-99. 8 vols., 8vo. ..."
3. Annals of Medical History by Francis Randolph Packard (1921)
"1909, xxiii, 528; 1910, xxiv, 13; Wilks: An account of some unpublished papers
of the late Dr. Hodgkin, Guy's Hosp. Kept., 1878, xxiii, 55; ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1833)
"That this undertaking has fallen to the lot of Dr Hodgkin, is a circumstance with
which every one who knows the attainments and diligence of that gentleman ..."
5. Reference Studies in Mediaeval History by James Westfall Thompson (1907)
"Hodgkin, Dynasty of Theodosius, Lecture 7. Hodgkin, Italy and Her Invaders, Vol.
II, Book III, chap. ii. Villari, Barbarian Invasions of Italy, Vol. ..."
6. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1866)
"THOMAS Hodgkin. The death of any man who has devoted himself with ... Dr.
Thomas Hodgkin was born on the 17th August, 1798, at Pentonville, then a village ..."
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