Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hodgkin

3 senses of hodgkin

Sense 1
Hodgkin, Thomas Hodgkin -- (English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866))
       INSTANCE OF=> doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico -- (a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor")

Sense 2
Hodgkin, Dorothy Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin -- (English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994))
       INSTANCE OF=> chemist -- (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)

Sense 3
Hodgkin, Alan Hodgkin, Sir Alan Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin -- (English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998))
       INSTANCE OF=> physiologist -- (a biologist specializing in physiology)