See Also: Meckel, Johann F Sr(medicine)
Meckel, Johann F Jr(medicine)
Meckel, Johann Friedrich(encyclopedia)
Meckel(dictionary)
Meckel's ligament(medicine)
Meckel's band(medicine)
Meckel's cartilage(medicine)
Meckel's cavity(medicine)
Meckel's ganglion(medicine)
Meckel's plane(medicine)

dor(2) (iou) and Meckel, Johann F Jr (medicine)


dor(2) (iou)



dor noun1. Also dorr. OE.
[Prob. imit. Cf. Middle Low German dorte drone.]
Any of various kinds of bee or buzzing fly. Also dor-bee, dor-fly, etc. OE-L17.
More fully dor-beetle. Any of various coleopterous insects that make a buzzing sound, esp. a dung-beetle of the genus Geotrupes. LME.
Comb.: dor-bee: see sense 1 above; dor-beetle: see sense 2 above; dor-bug US any insect that makes a buzzing sound; dor-fly: see sense 1 above; dor-hawk the nightjar.

Meckel, Johann F Jr (medicine)


Meckel, Johann F Jr
<person> German comparative anatomist and embryologist, 1781-1833.

See: Meckel scan, Meckel syndrome, Meckel's cartilage, Meckel's diverticulum, Meckel's plane, Meckel-Gruber syndrome.