Paris Medical School

a group of doctors and students at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris who advanced the hypotheses and research of Jean-Martin Charcot, particularly with regard to his neurological studies of a posited relation between hysteria and hypnotism. Sigmund Freud, who studied through a fellowship under Charcot, was greatly influenced by the Paris Medical School in his early studies and in the direction of his future work.

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ordinate

n. the vertical coordinate in a graph or data plot; that is, the y-axis. See also abscissa.