Miguel Canela Lázaro (September 29, 1894 – December 1, 1977) was a Dominican conservationist and a diplomat.

Biography

He was born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, on September 29, 1894, the son of Pedro Canela (also born in Santiago) and Dolores Antonia Lázaro (a Spaniard). He received surveyor (1917) and medicine doctorate (1924) degrees from the University of Santo Domingo. He died in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on December 1, 1977.[1]

Legacy

The Rouvière and Canela ligament (shown in Fig. 15 of "Anatomy of the ankle ligaments: a pictorial essay" [2]) is named after him and his supervisor at the University of Paris, Henri Rouvière, for their joint work.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Zaglul Emuldesi, Antonio (1998), Ciencia y Humildad: Biografía del Dr. Miguel Canela Lázaro (in Spanish), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Editora Taller
  2. ↑ Golanó, Pau; et al. (Jan 2010), "Anatomy of the ankle ligaments: a pictorial essay", Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, Springer-Verlag / Heidelberg, 18 (5): 557–69, doi:10.1007/s00167-010-1100-x, PMC 2855022, PMID 20309522
  3. ↑ Rouvière, Henri; Canela, Miguel (1932), "Le Ligament péroneo-astragalo-calcanéen", Annales d'Anatomie Pathologique, 9: 745
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