Eduard Sandifort (November 14, 1742 – February 12, 1814) was a Dutch physician and anatomist. He received his medical doctorate degree (Ph.D.) from

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in 1763, and worked as a general practitioner in

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. He was fluent in Dutch, German, Swedish, and Italian. He became a professor of anatomy and surgery in 1771 at Leiden University. His most important writings are ''Observationes Anatomico-pathologicæ'' (1778), ''Excercitationes anatomicoacademicæ'' (1783–85), and the ''Museum Anatomicum Academiae Lugduno-Batavæ'' (1789–93), which was finished by his son, Gerard Sandifort (1779–1848). Sandifort translated

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's ''Underrättelser om barn-sjukdomar och deras botemedel'' (''The diseases of children, and their remedies'') to Dutch in 1768. Sandifort was elected in 1768 as a foreign member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences in

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. In 1779 he was the first to document a case of

carpal coalition Carpal coalition is the abnormal fusion of two or more carpal bones when they fail to segment during intrauterine development. First described by Eduard Sandifort in 1779, carpal coalitions are often an isolated issue which connect two carpal bone ...

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1742 births 1814 deaths 18th-century Dutch anatomists Leiden University alumni Academic staff of Leiden University People from Dordrecht {{Netherlands-scientist-stub