Carrel

Carrel definition - medical

Car·rel (kə-rĕlˈ, kărˈəl), Alexis 1873-1944.

French-born American surgeon and biologist. He won a 1912 Nobel Prize for his work on vascular ligature and grafting of blood vessels and organs.

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