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Creador

Edward Calvin Kendall (1886-1972)

Químico estadounidense Premio Nobel de Medicina 1950
Palabras acuñadas por este creador:
Total de palabras: 2
Palabra Información
cortisona (cortisone) 1949
tiroxina (thyroxin) 1918
cortisona . 1949. N.Y. Times 1 June 33/8 (OED)
Texto de la acuñación de cortisone
"The hormone‥was named yesterday by its discoverer, Dr. Edward C. Kendall‥as ‘cortisone’, an abbreviation of its long chemical name, 17-hydroxy-11 dehydrocortico-sterone" (OED).
tiroxina . 1918. Endocrinology II. 90 (OED)
Texto de la acuñación de thyroxin
"It appeared desirable to emphasize the presence of the oxy-indol nucleus and it appeared equally desirable not to emphasize the presence of iodin. The substance was therefore named ‘Thyro-oxy-indol’, which has been shortened to ‘thyroxin’ for every-day reference to the substance" (OED).
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