Miguel Canela Lázaro

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Canela and the second or maternal family name is Lázaro.

Miguel Canela Lázaro 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 died in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on December 1, 1977. ^[1] The Rouvière and Canela ligament (shown in Fig. 15 of "Anatomy of the ankle ligaments: a pictorial essay" ^[2]) is named after him and his supervisor at the University of Paris, Henri Rouvière, for their joint work .^[3]

He was also a conservationist and a diplomat. He received both a surveyor (1917) and medicine doctorate (1924) degrees from the University of Santo Domingo.^[1]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Zaglul Emuldesi, Antonio (1998) (in Spanish), Ciencia y Humildad: Biografía del Dr. Miguel Canela Lázaro, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Editora Taller 
2. ^ Golanó, Pau; et al. (Jan. 2010), "Anatomy of the ankle ligaments: a pictorial essay", Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy (Springer-Verlag / Heidelberg) 18 (5): 557–69, doi:10.1007/s00167-010-1100-x, PMC 2855022, PMID 20309522, http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2855022 
3. ^ Rouvière, Henri; Canela, Miguel (1932), "Le Ligament péroneo-astragalo-calcanéen", Annales d'Anatomie Pathologique 9: 745 

External links

• Miguel Canela Lázaro at Enciclopedia Virtual Dominicana (in Spanish)

Persondata
Name	Canela Lázaro, Miguel
Alternative names	Canela, Miguel
Short description	Dominican surveyor, physician and scientist
Date of birth	1894-09-29
Place of birth	Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
Date of death	1977-12-01
Place of death	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic