| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Pav·lov |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p v lôf , -lôv, pävl f |
| DATES: | 1849–1936 |
| Russian physiologist who is best known for discovering the conditioned response. He won a 1904 Nobel Prize for research on the nature of digestion. | | OTHER FORMS: | Pav·lovi·an (pv-l v -n, -lô-) —ADJECTIVE
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