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    Jean Riolan (the Younger) (15 February 1577 or 1580 – 19 February 1657) was a French anatomist who was an influential member of the Medical Faculty of...
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    Alastair (10 April 2021). "Reply: The etymology of 'neurology', redux: early use of the term by Jean Riolan the Younger (1610)". Brain. 144 (4): awab024...
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  • spread despite analysis by anatomist Jean Riolan the Younger, who ascribed the bones to one of Hannibal's elephants. The French scholar Peiresc also demonstrated...
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    in the early 17th century with Parisian physician Guy Patin and French anatomist Jean Riolan the Younger. Patin, nicknamed "Le Grand Saigneur" (the Grand...
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  • paralysis. He was among the first few authors to use the word "neurology," after anatomist Jean Riolan the Younger in 1610. A beginning of the understanding of...
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    Coccyx (category Bones of the thorax)
    Latin name for the cuckoo. The 16th/17th century French anatomist Jean Riolan the Younger gives a rather hilarious etymological explanation, as he writes:...
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    to the kidneys. The term "adrenal" comes from Latin ad, "near", and ren, "kidney". Similarly, "suprarenal", as termed by Jean Riolan the Younger in 1629...
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    In the 17th-century the non-classical Latin form -ideus/-idea/ideum for Greek -ειδής/-ειδές came into use, mostly by French anatomist Jean Riolan the Younger...
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  • stoma". In 1649, Jean Riolan the Younger accidentally pierced a patient's eardrum while cleaning it with an ear spoon. Surprisingly, the patient's hearing...
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    1657 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    – Sebastian Stoskopff, French painter (b. 1597) February 19 – Jean Riolan the Younger, French anatomist (b. 1577) March – Edward Hopkins, colonial Connecticut...
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