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- adjective Of or relating to Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564),
Flemish anatomist andphysician .
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Examples
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And just as Virchow made the crucial leap from Vesalian anatomy to the physiology of cancer in the nineteenth century, science must make a leap from the molecular anatomy to the molecular physiology of cancer.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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And just as Virchow made the crucial leap from Vesalian anatomy to the physiology of cancer in the nineteenth century, science must make a leap from the molecular anatomy to the molecular physiology of cancer.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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And just as Virchow made the crucial leap from Vesalian anatomy to the physiology of cancer in the nineteenth century, science must make a leap from the molecular anatomy to the molecular physiology of cancer.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The researchers concluded: Some of these descriptions, such as the eloquent ones provided by Jorjani, were original and have gone mostly unknown to post-Vesalian European scholars.'
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