biography
pronunciation:
[grahf]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1641–73)
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| biography:
| Physician and anatomist, born in Schoonhoven, W Netherlands. He studied at the University of Angers, practised at Delft, and in 1663 wrote a famous treatise on the pancreas. In 1672 he discovered the parts of the ovary that produce ova, which became known as Graafian follicles. |
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