Definition of Meyerhof

1. Noun. United States biochemist (born in Germany) who studied the metabolism of muscles (1884-1951).

Exact synonyms: Otto Fritz Meyerhof, Otto Meyerhof
Generic synonyms: Biochemist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meyerhof

Mexitil
Meyenburg's complex
Meyenburg's disease
Meyenburg-Altherr-Uehlinger syndrome
Meyer
Meyer's cartilages
Meyer's line
Meyer's reagent
Meyer-Archambault loop
Meyer-Betz disease
Meyer-Betz syndrome
Meyer-Overton rule
Meyer-Overton theory of narcosis
Meyer Guggenheim
Meyerbeer
Meyerhof (current term)
Meyerhof oxidation quotient
Meynert's cell
Meynert's commissure
Meynert's decussation
Meynert's fasciculus
Meynert's layer
Meynert's retroflex bundle
Meänkieli
Mhairi
Mi'kmaq
Mia Maid
Miami
Miami Beach
Miamis

Literary usage of Meyerhof

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

1. The Never-ceasing Search by Francis Otto Schmitt (1990)
"Otto Meyerhof, 1929. Photo courtesy of Elsevier Publishing Co., Inc., from book, Metabolism and Punction (1950). ..."

2. Contrasts in Scientific Style: Research Groups in the Chemical and by Joseph S. Fruton (1990)
"There, Meyerhof began his famous work on the chemistry of muscular contraction, ... Although Warburg later claimed Meyerhof (along with Krebs) as his pupil, ..."

3. Between East and West: The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices Up to the by R. A. Donkin (2003)
"135 Meyerhof, 1918: pp. 197-198 (including red as well as white sandalwood); ... Meyerhof (in Maimonides, 1940: p. 39) observed that since the suppression ..."

4. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1922)
"Meyerhof agrees with Hill in finding that the observed heat of recovery is of the ... But Meyerhof has gone beyond previous observers by showing what this ..."

5. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"in such cases, Meyerhof found the caloric quotient raised to 3-3. If the heati-r combination of ammonia with carbon dioxide be deducted, the value falls to ..."

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