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humoral

adj

Etymology

From Middle English humerale, humorale, humoural, from Middle French humoral and Medieval Latin hūmorālis, from Latin hūmor. By surface analysis, humor + -al.

  1. derived from hūmor
  2. derived from hūmorālis
  3. derived from humoral
  4. inherited from humerale

Definitions

  1. Relating to the body fluids or humours.

    • The usual kind of excitation met with in the pancreas is purely humoral and there is no reason to assume that any form of nervous activity is involved in it.

  2. Pertaining to humorism. (The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of…

    Pertaining to humorism. (The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.)

    • By predicating conception on differing humoral temperaments of men and women, medical theorists justified their own subjugation of women by cultivating a distinct female humorality responsible for behavior.
    • The planets are used as symbols in Culpeper's humoral philosophy, and the way he uses them had developed within hermetic philosophy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at humoral. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at humoral. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at humoral

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA