# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-fernel
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:07:36.771Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-fernel"
name: "Jean Fernel"
slug: "jean-fernel"
description: "Jean François Fernel was a French physician who introduced the term \"physiology\" to describe the study of the body's function. He was the first person to describe the spinal canal. The lunar crater Fernelius is named after him."
tagline: "French physician (*1497 – †1558)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean_Fernel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1506"
deathDate: "1558-04-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump