Editing Jean Fernel (section)

{{short description|16th-century French physician}}
{{redirect|Fernelius|the crater|Fernelius (crater)}}
{{Infobox scholar 
| name        = Jean Fernel
| image       = Jean Fernel.jpg
| other_names = Ioannes Fernelius
| birth_date  = 1497 
| birth_place = [[Montdidier, Somme|Montdidier]]
| death_date  = 26 April 1558
| death_place = [[Fontainebleau]]
| nationality = French
| discipline  = [[Medicine]]
| education   = 
| workplaces  = [[University of Paris]]
| influences  = [[Galen]]
| influenced  = 
| academic_advisors = 
| notable_students  = [[Andreas Vesalius]]<ref name=O'Malley>Charles Donald O'Malley, ''Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564'', University of California Press, 1964, p. 47.</ref>
}}

'''Jean François Fernel''' ([[Onomastic Latinisation|Latinized]] as '''Ioannes Fernelius'''; 1497 – 26 April 1558)<ref name=EB1911>{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Fernel, Jean François |volume=10|page=281|short=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pQdEBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA136 |page=136 |title=The Endeavour of Jean Fernel |author=Charles Sherrington |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2014|isbn=9781107453784 }}</ref> was a French [[physician]] who introduced the term "[[physiology]]" to describe the study of the body's function.<ref name=tubbs/> He was the first person to describe the [[spinal canal]]. The lunar crater [[Fernelius (crater)|Fernelius]] is named after him.

Fernel suggested that [[taste bud]]s are sensitive to [[fat]], an idea which research in the early 21st century proved to be correct.<ref>[http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=potential-taste-receptor Potential Taste Receptor for Fat Identified]. Scientific American</ref><ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1146/annurev-nutr-080508-141108|title=Is There a Fatty Acid Taste?|year=2009|last1=Mattes|first1=Richard D.|journal=Annual Review of Nutrition|volume=29|pages=305–27|pmid=19400700|pmc=2843518}}</ref>