Hippolyte Cloquet was a French physician and anatomist who was a native of Paris

Paris

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. He was the brother of surgeon

Surgeon

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 Jules Germain Cloquet

Jules Germain Cloquet

Jules Germain Cloquet was a French physician and surgeon who was born and practiced medicine in Paris. His older brother, Hippolyte Cloquet , was also a physician...

 (1790–1883), and father to Ernest Cloquet (1818–1856), who was a personal physician to Mohammad Shah Qajar

Mohammad Shah Qajar

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 of Persia.

He studied medicine in Paris, where he earned his doctorate in 1815. In 1823 he became a member of the Académie de Médecine.

Cloquet was a pioneer in the field of rhinology

Rhinology

Rhinology is the study of the nose, including the sinuses.Rhinology concerns itself with medical and surgical diseases of the nasal passages as well as paranasal sinuses...

, and in 1821 published Osphrésiologie, ou traité des odeurs, which was a comprehensive treatise that discussed olfaction

Olfaction

Olfaction is the sense of smell. This sense is mediated by specialized sensory cells of the nasal cavity of vertebrates, and, by analogy, sensory cells of the antennae of invertebrates...

, diseases of the nose, deviations of the septum

Deviated septum

Nasal septum deviation is a common physical disorder of the nose, involving a displacement of the nasal septum.-Causes:It is most frequently caused by impact trauma, such as by a blow to the face. It can also be a congenital disorder, caused by compression of the nose during childbirth...

, rhinoplasty

Rhinoplasty

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, et al. He was also author of Traité d'anatomie descriptive, an influential French text of anatomy that ran through six editions. The fourth edition of this work was translated into English by anatomist Robert Knox

Robert Knox

Robert Knox was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist and zoologist. He was the most popular lecturer in anatomy in Edinburgh before his involvement in the Burke and Hare body-snatching case. This ruined his career, and a later move to London did not improve matters...

 (1791–1862).

Cloquet also made contributions in the field of zoology

Zoology

Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

, his treatise Poissons et Reptiles was included in the Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles.

• Associated eponyms:
• Cloquet's ganglion: An enlargement of the nasopalatine nerve
  Nasopalatine nerve
  One branch of the posterior superior nasal branches , longer and larger than the others, is named the nasopalatine nerve ....
  
   in the anterior palatine canal
  Incisive foramen
  The fossa incisiva is an opening in the bone of the oral hard palate where blood vessels and nerves may pass. There are four of these openings in the incisive fossa.-Formation:...
  
  .
• Cloquet's space: A space between the ciliary zonule and the vitreous body.