| humoral i. |
immunity mediated by antibodies. Cf. cell-mediated i.
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| humoral t. |
humoralism.
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| humoralism |
the ancient theory that health and illness result from a balance or imbalance of bodily liquids (“humors”). The theory is especially associated with Hippocratic writers, but it long antedates Hippocrates. Humoralism is a variant of Empedocles' theory of the four “roots” (earth, air, fire, water), later the four “elements,” then the four qualities (hot, cold, moist, dry), then the four temperaments (cf. temperament). The four humors and the four qualities are (1) phlegm (water, or a watery substance), which is cold and moist; (2) blood, which is hot and moist; (3) black bile or gall, secreted from the kidneys and spleen, cold and dry; and (4) yellow bile or choler, secreted from the liver, hot and dry. Humoralism was decisively displaced only in 1858 by Rudolf Virchow's Cellularpathologie. Called also humoral theory and humorism.
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| humorism |
humoralism.
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| Humorsol |
trademark for a solution of demecarium bromide.
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