About Pierre Lalouette
Lived 1711 – 1792 (aged 80–81). Pierre Lalouette was a French physician.
Pierre Lalouette de Vernicourt (1711 - 1792) was a French anatomist.
Lalouette described a lobe present in around a third of the population's thyroids that would later be called the Lalouette's Pyramid. When asked about a possible function for the thyroid gland, Lalouette said that it "would intervene to modulate voice expression by the liquid it produces."
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Who was Pierre Lalouette?
French physician
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Pierre Lalouette was born in 1711.
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Pierre Lalouette died in 1792.
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Pierre Lalouette was a physician.
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Pierre Lalouette was French.
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