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  • 101Pasteur effect (reaction) — Pas·teur effect (reaction) (pahs toorґ) [L. Pasteur] see under effect …

    Medical dictionary

  • 102PASTEUR, LOUIS —    an eminent French chemist, born at Dôle, in dep. of Jura, celebrated for his studies and discoveries in fermentation, and also for his researches in hydrophobia and his suggestion of inoculation as a cure; the Pasteur Institute in Paris was… …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 103Pasteur treatment — A method of preventing disease, especially rabies, by inoculation, the name deriving from Louis Pasteur, a French bacteriologist, who first employed it. Buck v Brady, 110 Md 568, 73 A 277 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 104Pasteur — biographical name Louis 1822 1895 French chemist & microbiologist • Pasteurian adjective …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 105Pasteur — Pasteurian, adj. /pa sterr /; Fr. /pah stuerdd /, n. Louis /looh ee/; Fr. /lwee/, 1822 95, French chemist and bacteriologist. * * * …

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  • 106Pasteur — Pas|teur, Louis (1822 95) a French ↑scientist who established the study of ↑microbiology (=the study of very small living things such as ↑bacteria ), and proved that disease can be caused by ↑germs. He also studied fermentation (=the process by… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 107pasteur — pasture …

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  • 108pasteur — pas·teur …

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  • 109Pasteur — Pas•teur [[t]pæˈstɜr[/t]] n. big Louis, 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist Pas•teur′i•an, adj …

    From formal English to slang

  • 110Pasteur — /pasˈtɜ/ (say pahs ter) noun Louis /ˈlui/ (say loohee), 1822–1895, French chemist and bacteriologist; considered to be the founder of microbiology …