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Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente, also known as Girolamo Fabrizio or Hieronymus Fabricius (20 May 1533 – 21 May 1619), was a pioneering anatomist and surgeon known in medical science as "The Father of Embryology ." Life and accomplishments.
Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente (born May 20, 1537, Acquapendente, Italy—died May 21, 1619, Padua) was an Italian surgeon, an outstanding Renaissance anatomist who helped found modern embryology.
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May 20, 2021 · On May 20, 1533 Hieronymus Fabricius or Girolamo Fabrizio or by his Latin name Fabricus ab Aquapendente also Girolamo Fabrizi d’Acquapendente was born. He was a pioneering anatomist and surgeon known in medical science as “ The Father of Embryology .”
Hieronymus Fabricius (hīərŏn´əməs), 1537–1619, Italian anatomist; pupil and successor of Fallopius and teacher of William Harvey at Padua. He was a surgeon, an embryologist, and an anatomist; he described the venous valves but did not fully understand their function.
Oct 20, 2020 · Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente (1533–1619) described the homonymous bursa in the “De Formatione Ovi et Pulli”, published posthumously in 1621. He also included a figure in which the bursa was depicted.
- Domenico Ribatti, Andrea Porzionato, Aron Emmi, Raffaele De Caro
- 10.47162/RJME.61.2.31
- 2020
- Apr-Jun 2020
In English medical literature Fabricius is best known as the teacher of Harvey, who gives him the entire credit for the discovery of the valves in the veins which meant so much for Harvey's own discovery of the circulation of the blood.
Apr 17, 2020 · Girolamo Fabrici (c. 1533–1619) was a physician, surgeon, anatomist, and longtime member of the medical faculty at the University of Padua. He published works on surgery and anatomy.
