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Galenism

Meaning of "Galenism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GALENISM

ˈɡeɪlɪˌnɪzəm


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Galenism is a noun.
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WHAT DOES GALENISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Galen

Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus, better known as Galen of Pergamon, was a prominent Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman empire. Arguably the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen influenced the development of various scientific disciplines, including anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and neurology, as well as philosophy and logic. The son of Aelius Nicon, a wealthy architect with scholarly interests, Galen received a comprehensive education that prepared him for a successful career as a physician and philosopher. He traveled extensively, exposing himself to a wide variety of medical theories and discoveries before settling in Rome, where he served prominent members of Roman society and eventually was given the position of personal physician to several emperors. Galen's understanding of anatomy and medicine was principally influenced by the then-current theory of humorism, as advanced by ancient Greek physicians such as Hippocrates. His theories dominated and influenced Western medical science for more than 1,300 years.

Definition of Galenism in the English dictionary

The definition of Galenism in the dictionary is a system of medicine based on the 84 surviving technical treatises of Galen, including the theory of the four bodily humours.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GALENISM

alpinism · brominism · Calvinism · chauvinism · cretinism · Darwinism · determinism · diclinism · ecofeminism · feminism · Hellenism · hyperinsulinism · illuminism · indeterminism · Jainism · Leninism · Philistinism · Stalinism · strychninism · vulpinism

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GALENISM

Galen · galena · Galenic · galenical · Galenist · galenite · galenoid · galeopithecine · Galerius · galette · Galibi · Galicia · Galician · Galilean · Galilean satellite · Galilean telescope

WORDS THAT END LIKE GALENISM

alienism · catechumenism · ecumenism · epicenism · eugenism · gombeenism · heathenism · hoydenism · hyphenism · Jansenism · lichenism · mechanism · monogenism · Panhellenism · phenomenism · philhellenism · phrenism · plenism · polygenism · tokenism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GALENISM»

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Galen and Galenism: theory and medical practice from ...
The present collection deals with a wide array of issues regarding the historical Galen and late medieval and Renaissance Galenism, but focuses in particular on the relationship between theory and practice.
Luis García Ballester, 2002
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Medicine and the Five Senses
Bylebyl and Brockliss look at two episodes in the long history of Galenism. Eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century doctors may have seen the 'birth of the clinic' as the contemporary recovery of a historical ideal. That ideal was Hippocratic ...
William F. Bynum, Roy Porter, 1993
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Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution: From Copernicus ...
Furthermore, the majority of the followers of what may be called Hippocratic Galenism adopted the New Anatomy and began applying it not only to theories on the localization of illness, but also to the clarification of specific clinical cases by ...
Wilbur Applebaum, 2000
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The Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes
B The Galenic Paradigm And Its Crisis Summary. Galenism forms the historical background for the confrontation between vitalism and mechanism that begins in the seventeenth century. In the course of development since antiquity, the original ...
Thomas Fuchs, 2001
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Pestilence in Medieval & Early Modern English Literature
learning (Temkin, Galenism, 31). This sect “rejected both etiological research and experience and inferred directly from the symptoms of disease to the status of the body, which, they thought, was tense or relaxed” (Temkin, Galenism, 31–2).
Byron Lee Grigsby, 2004
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Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period
These questions concerned academic Galenism from the late 13th century onward. The answers that Galenism offered in the course of the later Middle Ages were neither unitary nor static. Galenism was sensitive to the different intellectual  ...
Mordechai Feingold, Víctor Navarro Brotons, 2006
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Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 72, Part ...
In a careful analysis of Ḥunayn's visual theory,210 Lindberg proceeds to identify important questions raised within the tradition of "Galenism."2" As he points out initially, "The importance of these two books [by Hunayn] is not that they.
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Kremers and Urdang's History of Pharmacy
It was indeed, essentially in the form of "Galenism" that Greek medicine was transmitted to later ages.42 What Galenism means could, and has, occupied volumes, since the medical philosophy in Galen's works or ascribed to him provided a ...
Edward Kremers, Glenn Sonnedecker, 1986
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Four Treatises for the Reconsideration of the History of Science
It was disease theory that allowed Paracelsus to depart from Galenism and expound his own etiology: Paracelsus recognized diseases as a primarily exogenous phenomenon, as will later be demonstrated. Apart from etiological issues, ...
Fabio Farina, 2003
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The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England
See scholarly apparatus Sidney, Philip, 39, 40, 42, 68, 69, 162 Sigismund, Emperor, 136 Singleton, Hugh, 42 skepticism Bright, 75-76 Donne, 75 English Renaissance, 4-5, 74—77 France, 75, 76-77 and Galenism, 76 Hamlet, 5, 66, 79- 83, ...
Douglas Trevor, 2004

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GALENISM»

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The Secrets Inside Us
It systematically dismantled the error-filled doctrine of Galenism, which rested in part on animal rather than human anatomy and had held sway ... «New York Times, Dec 13»
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Oh, to be in England
But Shakespeare was not in thrall to Galenism as was his son-in-law: in other words, it was precisely his lack of university training that permitted him to be so ... «City Journal, Nov 05»
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