Adrian

Adrian definition - medical

A·dri·an (āˈdrē-ən), Edgar Douglas First Baron Adrian. 1889-1977.

British physiologist. He shared a 1932 Nobel Prize for major advances in the understanding of the nervous and muscular systems and was one of the first to study electrical activity in the brain and nervous system.

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