See Also: photodrome(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Loeffler, Friedrich(medicine)
Loeffler's syndrome(medicine)
Loeffler's stain(medicine)
Loeffler's bacillus(medicine)
Loeffler pneumonia(medicine)
Loeffler's methylene blue(medicine)
Loeffler's caustic stain(medicine)
Klebs-Loeffler bacillus(medicine)

Loeffler, Friedrich (medicine) and photodrome (medicine)


Loeffler, Friedrich (medicine)


Loeffler, Friedrich
<person> German bacteriologist and surgeon, 1852-1915.

See: Loeffler's bacillus, Loeffler's blood culture medium, Loeffler's stain, Loeffler's caustic stain, Loeffler's methylene blue, Klebs-Loeffler bacillus.


photodrome (medicine)


photodrome
<physics> An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes, which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of light passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timing the succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction.

Origin: Photo- + Gr. To run.

Source: Websters Dictionary