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Medawar, Sir Peter (oh) and hemithoracic duct (medicine)


Medawar, Sir Peter (oh)



(1915-87) a British zoologist (=a scientist who studies animals and their behaviour) , who made important discoveries about the immune system (=the system that your body uses to protect itself from disease) . He won a Nobel Prize for medicine.

hemithoracic duct (medicine)


hemithoracic duct


An accessory thoracic duct, usually emptying into the thoracic duct but sometimes discharging independently into the right subclavian vein.

Synonym: ductus hemithoracicus.