camillo golgi

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Definition of camillo golgi in English English dictionary

born July 7, 1843/44, Corteno, Italy died Jan. 21, 1926, Pavia Italian physician and cytologist. He devised a way to stain nerve tissue and with it discovered a neuron, now called the Golgi cell, that has many short, branching extensions (dendrites) and connects other neurons. This led to identification of the neuron as the basic structural unit of the nervous system. He also discovered the Golgi tendon organ (the point at which sensory nerve fibres branch out within a tendon) and the Golgi apparatus (a cell organelle that packages large molecules for transport). He shared a 1906 Nobel Prize with Santiago Ramón y Cajal (b. 1852 d. 1934)

{i} (1843-1926) Italian physician and histologist, winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Hyphenation

Ca·mil·lo Gol·gi

Turkish pronunciation

kımîlō gōlci

Pronunciation

/kəˈməlō ˈgōlʤē/ /kəˈmɪloʊ ˈɡoʊlʤiː/