Flexner

Flexner definition - medical

Flex·ner (flĕksˈnər), Simon 1863-1946.

American microbiologist who isolated the bacillus of dysentery (1900), developed a serum for cerebrospinal meningitis (1907), and led the team that identified the cause of poliomyelitis.

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