Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun christiaan_eijkman
1 sense of christiaan eijkman
Sense 1
Eijkman, Christiaan Eijkman -- (Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi is caused by a nutritional deficiency (1858-1930))
INSTANCE OF=> doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico -- (a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor")