Meyerhof

Meyerhof definition - medical

Mey·er·hof (mīˈər-hôfˌ), Otto 1884-1951.

German-born American physiologist. He shared a 1922 Nobel Prize for his discovery of the relationship between consumption of oxygen and production of lactic acid in muscles.

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