huxley Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)
   Andrew Fielding Huxley; Andrew Huxley.
   
2. noun English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963)
   Aldous Huxley; Aldous Leonard Huxley.
   
3. noun English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895)
   Thomas Henry Huxley; Thomas Huxley.
   

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