christiaan eijkman

1. 1.

   Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi is caused by a nutritional deficiency (1858-1930)

   SynonymsEijkman

   Broaderdoctor

Questions about christiaan eijkman

What does christiaan eijkman mean?

christiaan eijkman means "Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi is caused by a nutritional deficiency (1858-1930)".

What is another word for christiaan eijkman?

Close synonyms include Eijkman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is christiaan eijkman a common word?

christiaan eijkman is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.