Meaning

(historical) An approach to healthy living promoted in the late 19th and early 20th century..

Definitions by Sense

1. (historical) An approach to healthy living promoted in the late 19th and early 20th century.
2. The scientific study of life at the cellular level.
3. An African worldview that unites life, consciousness, behavior, and culture.
4. The study or existence of virtual or computer-augmented life.
5. The model of the life force (chi) in traditional Chinese medicine and philosophy.
6. Life sciences in general.
7. The horticulture of vineyards.

Example Sentences

The modern trend towards the so-called nature cure methods betrays the dim prevision of the new climatic treatment embodied in the science of vitology.

Vitology establishes tranquility, poise, reserve strength; cultivates your memory; makes you ambitious, courageous, powerful -- all this and more may beyours through the study and application of this wonderul new science of mental and physical efficiency, and without the use of drugs.

But God is not mocked, either by vitamines, vegetables, vibrations, or vitology.

Through vitology, “one eliminates and heals menstruation as well as seminal losses."

D. In order to complete agricultural education, the American countries should keep in view: (1) Supplementary establishments for agricultural experiment stations, laboratories of vegetable pathology and vitology, special stations, agricultural statistics, etc.; (2) the development of extension teaching through the medium of demonstration farms, by the aid of local farmers, and, in general, by all the means of propaganda which enable agricultural instruction to reach the farmer himself so as to guide him in his work.

Whilst there is always that steady step forward in the field of treatment, chiefly in improved surgical anaesthetic and resuscitation techniques, there has been no development during the past twelve mothns especially in the fields of chemotherapy, vitology, immunology etc. which can be regarded as having any possible early application which would be superior to the present accepted methods of treatment.

Most of the information that made him skeptical of in vitro “mitochondriology,” and that it did not have much to do with “cellular vitology” (the term by which his laboratory came to be known), had come from studies of transillumination of various thin, excised, but otherwise intact tissues specialized for ion transport--gastric mucosa, carotic body, and kidney.

Faculty research: Emerging diseases, tropical diseases, parasitology, vitology and bacteriology.

When Should You Use Vitology?

Use vitology when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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