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EUSTACHIUS

Volume 9 · 65 words · 1860 Edition

(in Italian Bartolomeo Eustachi), one of the most celebrated anatomists of the sixteenth century, of whose history almost nothing is known except that he died at Rome in 1570. His name is preserved in that of the Eustachian tube, which runs between the inner ear and the upper part of the throat; and the Eustachian valve of the heart. See Anatomy, vol. iii., p. 46.