See Also: Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie(encyclopedia)
Barthou, (Jean-) Louis(encyclopedia)
Trintignant, Jean-Louis(encyclopedia)
Barrault, Jean-Louis(encyclopedia)
Rampal, Jean-Pierre (-Louis)(encyclopedia)
Agassiz, (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe)(encyclopedia)
Blanc, (Jean-Joseph-Charles-) Louis(encyclopedia)
Gericault, (Jean-Louis-Andre-) Theodore(encyclopedia)
graining(dictionary)
graining(medicine)

Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (sh) and graining (medicine)


Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (sh)




born May 26, 1716, Montbard, C?te d'Or, Fr.
died Jan. 1, 1800, Paris

French naturalist.

A prolific scientist, he completed many zoological descriptions and dissections and undertook productive studies in the comparative anatomy of recent and fossil animals, plant physiology, and mineralogy. He introduced Merino sheep to France.


graining (medicine)


graining


1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins.

2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised.

3. Painting or staining, in imitation of the grain of wood, atone, etc.

4. The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.

<zoology> A small European fresh water fish (Leuciscus vulgaris); - called also dobule, and dace.

Source: Websters Dictionary