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Noun: Schwann  shvón
  1. German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 and 1839 identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and animal tissue (1810-1882)
    - Theodor Schwann

Type of: histologist, physiologist

Encyclopedia: Schwann Schwann, Theodor

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