Giovanni Domenico Santorini
1681–1737
Italian anatomist. Studied medicine at Bologna, Padua, and Pisa. MD, 1701. Demonstrator in anatomy at Venice, 1706–28. Physician to the Spedaletto, Venice, from 1728. Recorded anatomical observations concerning facial muscles involved in emotional expression.
Source
DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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