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Rathke, Martin H(einrich)
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pronunciation:
[rahtkuh]
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| Biologist, born in Gdańsk, N Poland (formerly Danzig, Germany). He was a medical practitioner before becoming professor of physiology at Dorpat (1829) and Königsberg (1835). In 1829 he discovered gill-slits and gill-arches in embryo birds and mammals. Rathke's pocket is the name given to the small pit on the dorsal side of the oral cavity of developing vertebrates. |
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