| five e.’s |
1. see under phase. 2. in ayurvedic tradition, the basic entities (earth, air, fire, water, and space) whose interaction gives rise to material existence.
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| five p.’s |
in traditional Chinese medicine, a set of dynamic relations (designated earth, metal, water, wood, and fire) that can be used to categorize relationships among phenomena; sometimes called the five elements because of their superficial resemblence to the elements of alchemy.
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| five-day f. |
trench f.
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| five-year survival r. |
an expression of the number of survivors with no trace of disease five years after each has been diagnosed or treated for the same disease.
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| five elements theory |
A fundamental premise in traditional Chinese medicine and some branches of alternative medicine that holds that illness results from imbalances in these elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. A similar concept in anc
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