HUMORAL PATHOLOGY
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Definitions of HUMORAL PATHOLOGY
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Obsolete doctrine that all diseases arise from some change of the humors.
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opinion that disease is due to abnormal conditions of the fluids of the body.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn.: humoralism. Of Hippocrates, pathology based on the supposition that disease depended on an abnormal condition of four humors in the body.
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Of Rokitansky and other modern writers, pathology based on the theory that all changes produced by disease are the result of a blood dyscrasia.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).