Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Relating to bodily fluids, especially serum.
- adj. Relating to or arising from any of the bodily humors.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In pathology, pertaining to or proceeding from the humors.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or relating to the body fluids or humours.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to bodily fluids
Examples
“Much stress has been laid on the growth in humoral properties under these conditions.”
“Goronzy J, Weyand CM, Fathman CG (1986) Long-term humoral unresponsiveness in vivo, induced by treatment with monoclonal antibody against L3T4.”
“65Colonial curanderos differed radically from practitioners trained in humoral medicine in the ways they diagnosed the patient.”
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
“In so far, however, as the diseased function of the living body elements is, in the main, conditioned by the incorrect mixture of body fluids, I find the linguistic inconsistency of the use of the word humoral pathology no worse than if one speaks of pathological anatomy, although the subject matter of this discipline concerns cadaver anatomy and cannot really be attributed to cadavers.”
“Then came the great "humoral" or "vital fluid" theory of disease which ruled during the Middle Ages.”
“The Immunology Laboratory of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia offers an extensive assortment of both cellular and humoral immunological procedures.”
“The Immunology lab also offers a variety of assays for evaluation of the humoral immune system.”
“We have the antibody response, or the humoral immunity, which conceptually is the part of the body that could help prevent infection.”
Voice of America: US Scientists Expand Scope of HIV Vaccine Study
“The historian Arikha traces the humoral doctrine through the ages, exploring the intersection of folk wisdom and state-of-the-art science, and provocatively argues that the basic model continues to inform science in surprising ways.”
“For four years, students read the works of Hippocrates, Galen, and Avicenna on humoral theory, temperaments, the nature of man, fevers, and pulse.”
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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