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

1 sense of theodor schwann

Sense 1
Schwann, Theodor Schwann -- (German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 and 1839 identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and animal tissue (1810-1882))
       INSTANCE OF=> physiologist -- (a biologist specializing in physiology)
       INSTANCE OF=> histologist -- (anatomist who specializes in the microscopic study of animal tissues)