Wrisberg

Heinrich August Wrisberg

Heinrich August Wrisberg

18th-century German anatomist

Heinrich August Wrisberg (20 June 1739 – 29 March 1808) was an anatomist. He also published under the Latinized version of his name as Henricus Augustus Wrisberg.

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Education

He obtained his MD in 1763 at the University of Göttingen with a thesis entitled: De Respiratione Prima Nervo Phrenico Et Calore Animali: Pavca Disserit Et Simvl Vicarias Anatomiam Profitendi Operas Ad Diem XXIV. Octobris Aperiendas Indicit.

Career

He was a professor of medicine and obstetrics. Wrisberg studied the sympathetic nervous system and described the Wrisberg ganglion of the cardiac plexus. He also wrote a text on hernias.

The cuneiform cartilages are sometimes called the "Wrisberg cartilages".[1]

There are two nerves known as the nerve of Wrisberg.

References

  1. [1]
    "cartilage+of+Wrisberg - Definition from Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary". Archived from the original on 2013-01-28. Retrieved 2008-03-13.


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