Webster's 1913 Dictionary
GASSERIAN
GASSERIAN Gas *se "ri *an, a.
Defn: Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius ), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion. Gasserian ganglion (Anat. ), a large ganglion, at the root of the trigeminal, or fifth cranial, nerve.
New American Oxford Dictionary
gasser
gas ser |ˈgasər ˈɡæsər | ▶noun informal 1 an idle talker; a chatterer. 2 a very attractive or impressive person or thing: that story you wrote for me is a gasser!
Gasser, Herbert Spencer
Gas ser, Herbert Spencer |ˈgasər ˈɡæsər | (1888 –1963 ), US physiologist. In collaboration with Joseph Erlanger, he used an oscilloscope to show that the velocity of a nerve impulse is proportional to the diameter of the fiber. Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1944 ), shared with Erlanger.
Oxford Dictionary
gasser
gas ¦ser |ˈgasə | ▶noun informal 1 a chatterer. 2 US a very attractive or impressive person or thing.
Gasser, Herbert Spencer
Gas ¦ser |ˈgasə | (1888 –1963 ), American physiologist. Collaborating with Joseph Erlanger, he used an oscilloscope to show that the velocity of a nerve impulse is proportional to the diameter of the fibre. Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1944, shared with Erlanger ).
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