WEGENER

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• WEGENER (noun)
  The noun WEGENER has 1 sense:

1. German geophysicist who proposed the theory of continental drift (1880-1930)

  Familiarity information: WEGENER used as a noun is very rare.

• WEGENER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

German geophysicist who proposed the theory of continental drift (1880-1930)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Alfred Lothar Wegener; Wegener

Instance hypernyms:

geophysicist (a geologist who uses physical principles to study the properties of the earth)

 Context examples 

Representative examples include rhinitis and Wegener granulomatosis.

(Non-Neoplastic Nasal Cavity Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Causes include aspiration pneumonia, necrotizing pneumonia, necrotizing malignant tumors, and Wegener's granulomatosis.

(Lung Abscess, NCI Thesaurus)

Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's), also known as GPA, is a rare disease.

(Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (Wegener's), NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

It also may be associated with Lyme disease, Wegener's granulomatosis, Sjogren syndrome, cryoglobulinemia, hypereosinophilia, temporal arteritis, scleroderma, sarcoidosis, leprosy, acute viral hepatitis A, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

(Mononeuritis Multiplex, NCI Thesaurus)

In some cases, however, microscopic vessels are also affected (e.g., in the kidneys), a condition that has been called microscopic polyarteritis or polyangiitis; this disorder is felt to be more closely associated with Wegener's granulomatosis than to classic polyarteritis nodosa.

(Microscopic Polyarteritis, NCI Thesaurus)

To confirm their suspicions, in May 2016 the team sent a research plane from Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute to fly over the Hiawatha Glacier and map the crater and the overlying ice with a state-of-the-art ice-penetrating radar provided by the University of Kansas.

(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)