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Claude Bernard

Claude Bernard

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A French scientist who studied how the body digests food and stores sugar in the liver
  • proper noun
: Claude Bernard
  • Claude Bernard is often considered one of the founders of experimental medicine.

Examples

  • The work of Claude Bernard laid the foundation for modern physiology.

  • Medical students study Claude Bernard's contributions to physiology in their early courses.

  • The work of Claude Bernard revolutionized our understanding of internal bodily processes.

  • Claude Bernard was a pioneer in physiology!

  • Claude Bernard is often considered one of the founders of experimental medicine.

  • Medical students study Claude Bernard's contributions to physiology in their early courses.

  • The work of Claude Bernard revolutionized our understanding of internal bodily processes.

Surface Forms

Claude Bernard main

Morphology

Claude + Bernard

This entry is a proper name (a person's full name); the constituent forms 'Claude' and 'Bernard' are arbitrary name parts and do not convey the biographical meaning 'French physiologist (1813–1878)'. A B1 learner who knows the two name tokens would not be able to derive the person's identity, profession, or historical dates from the constituents, so the expression is non-compositional.

Etymology

Claude Bernard was a French doctor in the 1800s who did careful lab work on digestion and showed the liver stores a form of sugar called glycogen. Because of these experiments he is considered a founder of 'experimental medicine', so his name often stands for early scientific work in medicine.