Heymans

Heymans definition - medical

Hey·mans (hīˈmənz, ā-mäɴsˈ), Corneille Jean François 1892-1968.

Belgian physiologist. He won a 1938 Nobel Prize for determining the role of the aortic sinus in the regulation of respiration.

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