sir howard walter florey

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   British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968)

   SynonymsFloreyHoward Florey

   Broaderdiagnostician

Questions about sir howard walter florey

What does sir howard walter florey mean?

sir howard walter florey means "British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968)".

What is another word for sir howard walter florey?

Close synonyms include Florey, Howard Florey. 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 sir howard walter florey a common word?

sir howard walter florey 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.