Vesalius

Vesalius definition - medical

Ve·sa·li·us (vĭ-sāˈlē-əs, -zāˈ-), Andreas 1514-1564.

Flemish anatomist and surgeon who is considered the founder of modern anatomy and who wrote On the Structure of the Human Body (1543).

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