biography
| name: |
Morgagni, Giovanni Battista
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pronunciation:
[maw(r)ganyee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1682–1771)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Forli, NEC Italy. He studied at Bologna, worked as an anatomical demonstrator, and became professor of medicine at Padua in 1711. In his writings, he correlated pathological lesions with symptoms in over 700 cases, and is traditionally considered to be the founder of the science of pathological anatomy, ‘the father of morbid anatomy’. |
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