biography
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Fabricius, Hieronymus
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also known as Girolamo Fabrici
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pronunciation:
[fabreetsius]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1537–1619)
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| biography:
| Anatomist, born in Acquapendente, C Italy. He studied under Fallopius at Padua, becoming his successor as professor of anatomy there in 1562. He made the first detailed description of the valves of the veins, the placenta, and the larynx. William Harvey was one of his pupils. |
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