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from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or named after Conrad Victor Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century: in anatomy applied to the mucous membrane of the nose, first described by Schneider in 1660.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Discovered or described by C. V.
Schneider , a German anatomist of the seventeenth century. - adjective the mucous membrane which lines the nasal chambers; the pituitary membrane.
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Hence in all cases where it is continued an indefinite time, or until the schneiderian membrane loses its sensibility, it not only fails of its medicinal effect, but actually becomes pernicious; aggravating the very disease it was intended to cure.
A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco Moses Stuart 1816
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