humoralism

English

Alternative forms
  • humouralism

Etymology

humoral +‎ -ism

Noun

humoralism (usually uncountable, plural humoralisms)

  1. (obsolete, medicine) The state or quality of being humoral.
  2. (obsolete, medicine) The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humours; humorism.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “humoralism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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