Humoral

Quick meaning: Humoral is an adjective meaning (pathology, physiology) Relating to the body fluids or humours.

Meaning

(pathology, physiology) Relating to the body fluids or humours.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

The planets are used as symbols in Culpeper's humoral philosophy, and the way he uses them had developed within hermetic philosophy.

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.

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.

Both the apocryphal belief in pre-transplant cross-match screening to discard active humoral immune response against the donor and the lack of sensible and reliable markers for detecting AMR give explanation to the surprising fact that AMR was nearly neglected in human renal transplantation during years.

Word Forms

• humoural

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aqueous, serous, plasmatic, lymphatic, fluid, liquid.

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