Otto Kohlrausch

Otto Ludwig Bernhard Kohlrausch (March 20, 1811 – November 14, 1854) was a German physician and surgeon born in Barmen.

He studied natural sciences at the University of Bonn and medicine at Georg-August University of Göttingen. In 1835 he began practicing medicine in Hannover, and in 1841 established a health spa at Bad Rehburg on behalf of the government.

Otto Kohlrausch was a member of a distinguished family of scientists and scholars, and was an uncle to famed physicist Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840-1910). The eponymous "Kohlrausch's valves" are named after him (also known as the transverse rectal folds). Another anatomical structure associated with his name is "Kohlrausch's muscle", a term used to refer to any of the longitudinal muscles of the rectal wall.

Selected publications

Physiologie und Chemie in ihrer gegenwärtigen Stellung (Contemporary physiology and chemistry); (Göttingen 1844).
Zur Anatomie und Physiologie der Beckenorgane (The anatomy and physiology of the pelvic organs); (Leipzig 1854).

References

Dorlands Medical Dictionary (definition of eponym)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 5292969 GND: 101359497

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