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Hunterian, a.|hʌnˈtɪərɪən|
[f. proper name Hunter + -ian.]
Of or belonging to John Hunter (1728–1793), a famous Scottish surgeon and physiologist, or his elder brother William Hunter (1718–1783), an anatomist and obstetric surgeon; esp. in Hunterian (also Hunter's) canal, Hunterian chancre (see quots.), investigated by John Hunter.
1807–26S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 224 That most of the Hunterian theories about it were always false. 1824Watt Bibl. Brit. III. s.v., Hunterian Museum,..consisting principally of Collections in Natural History, the Fine Arts, and Antiquities, now the property of the Glasgow University. 1875Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims ix. 220 The Hunterian law of arrested developement is not confined to vegetable and animal structure. 1881Syd. Soc. Lex. s.v. Chancre, The Hunterian or hard chancre being the local manifestation of syphilis. 1886Ibid., Hunter's canal, a triangular canal giving passage to the femoral artery and vein and the internal saphenous nerve. |