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LAPICQUE, Louis (1866 – 1952)

LAPICQUE, Louis (1866 – 1952)

1866 – 1952

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1895 CE–1928 CE

#646

Dictionnaire de physiologie. Vols. 1 - 10, pt. 1. (All published).

By Richet, Langlois, Lapique and numerous co-authors. Covers "A" - Moelle épinière only. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1909 CE

#655

Définition expérimentale de l’excitabilité.

Lapicque first defined “chronaxia”, the duration of excitation of tissue. Partial translation in J. F. Fulton’s Selected readings in the history of physiology, 2nd ed., 1966, pp. 233-34.