About Pierre Bitôt
Lived 1822 – 1888 (aged 65). Pierre Bitôt was a French physician, surgeon, anatomist and physicist.
Pierre Alain Bitôt (22 March 1822, in Podensac – 2 February 1888) was a French physician, anatomist and surgeon; remembered for describing Bitot's spots.
Biography He attended medical school in Bordeaux, qualifying in 1846. He gained his M.D. in 1848 from the faculty of Paris, and joined the anatomy department in Bordeaux. He became Professor of anatomy in 1854, and gained his Chirurgien des Hôpitaux in 1878.
Honors Bitot's spots, the triangular spots that seen in the conjunctiva of the eye are named after him. He first described the spots in 1863.
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French physician, anatomist and surgeon
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Pierre Bitôt was born on 22 March 1822 in Gironde.
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Pierre Bitôt died on 2 February 1888.
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Pierre Bitôt was a physician, surgeon, anatomist and physicist.
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