Miguel Canela Lázaro

{{family name hatnote|Canela|Lázaro|lang=Spanish}}

{{short description|Dominican conservationist and diplomat}}

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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.{{Citation

| last = Zaglul Emuldesi

| first = Antonio

| title = Ciencia y Humildad: Biografía del Dr. Miguel Canela Lázaro

| publisher = Editora Taller

| location = Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

| language = Spanish

| year = 1998}}

Legacy

The Rouvière and Canela ligament (shown in Fig. 15 of "Anatomy of the ankle ligaments: a pictorial essay"

{{Citation

| last = Golanó

| first = Pau

| title = Anatomy of the ankle ligaments: a pictorial essay

| journal = Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

| publisher = Springer-Verlag / Heidelberg

| volume = 18

| issue = 5

| pages = 557–69

|date=Jan 2010

| doi = 10.1007/s00167-010-1100-x

| pmc=2855022

| pmid=20309522|display-authors=etal}}) is named after him and his supervisor at the University of Paris, Henri Rouvière, for their joint work.{{Citation

| last = Rouvière

| first = Henri

| last2 = Canela

| first2 = Miguel

| title = Le Ligament péroneo-astragalo-calcanéen

| journal = Annales d'Anatomie Pathologique

| volume = 9

| pages = 745

| year = 1932}}

Notes

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