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Carrel   /kˈærəl/   Listen
Carrel

noun
1.
French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944).  Synonym: Alexis Carrel.
2.
Small individual study area in a library.  Synonyms: carrell, cubicle, stall.



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"Carrel" Quotes from Famous Books



... place among French politicians and men of letters. About this time, too, the gift by his admirer, Cotta, the German publisher, of a share in the Constitutionnel raised him to comparative affluence. In January, 1830, he, along with Armand Carrel, Mignet, and other friends, started the National, and in its columns waged relentless war on the Polignac administration. The ministry met the opposition it had provoked by the Ordonnances of July. Among the other repressive measures that were taken was the sending of a commissary ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 • Various

... it will not convey very much to you, is Frank Carrel. I am a scholar, an archaeologist, a ...
— Masques & Phases • Robert Ross

... this suggestive fact about these recent biological experiments of Dr. Carrel, of the Rockefeller Institute: they seem to prove that the life of a man is not merely the sum of the life of the myriad cells of his body. Stab the man to death, and the cells of his body still ...
— The Breath of Life • John Burroughs

... removing oceans and of building huge, underground cities, the spirit of caves in the ground and mansions in the sky, and now he has subways and skyscrapers. For a thousand years he has had the spirit of Christ and now there is Frederick Taylor, Louis Brandeis, Westfield Pure Food, Doctor Carrel, Jane Addams, and Filene's Store. Vast networks—huge spiritual machines of goodness are crowding and penetrating to-day, fifteen pounds to the square inch, the atmosphere of the gospel into the very core of the matter of the world, into the everyday ...
— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee

... was discovered, among the papers of the Bastille, the letter which Casanova wrote from Augsburg in May 1767 to Prince Charles of Courlande on the subject of fabricating gold. Carrel published this letter at once in the third volume of his 'Memoirs authentiques et historiques sur la Bastille'. Casanova kept a copy of this letter and ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... was quite of the same opinion. 'What d'ye say to lifting up a carrel over his grave, as 'tis Christmas, and no hurry to begin down in parish, and 'twouldn't take up ten minutes, and not a soul up here to say us nay, or know ...
— A Changed Man and Other Tales • Thomas Hardy



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