Ross, Sir Ronald Syllabification: (Ross, Sir Ronald)Pronunciation: /rôs/Definition of Ross, Sir Ronald (1857–1932), British physician. He confirmed that the Anopheles mosquito transmitted malaria and then elucidated the stages in the malarial parasite’s life cycle. Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1902). Ross, Sir Ronald in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of Ross, Sir Ronald in the British & World English dictionary