maddock

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Definition of maddock in English English dictionary

an earthworm, a maggot

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Sir William Maddock Bayliss

born May 2, 1860, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, Eng. died Aug. 27, 1924, London British physiologist. He and Ernest H. Starling studied nerve-controlled blood-vessel contraction and dilation and discovered the peristaltic wave. In 1902 they showed that dilute hydrochloric acid mixed with partly digested food activates a chemical in the duodenum that they called secretin, because it stimulates secretion of pancreatic juice. This marked the discovery of hormones, a term the men coined. Bayliss also showed how the enzyme trypsin was formed from inactive trypsinogen and measured precisely the time it took to digest protein. His recommendation of gum-saline injections for wound shock saved many lives in World War I

Turkish pronunciation

mädık

Pronunciation

/ˈmadək/ /ˈmædək/

Etymology

() Middle English maddoc, from an unrecorded Old English form corresponding to Old Norse maðkr (whence dialectal English mawk, Danish madike, Swedish mask), originally a diminutive of the Proto-Germanic *maða- (“worm”) (whence Old English maþa)