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Humoral definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HU'MORAL, a. Pertaining to or proceeding from the humors; as a humoral fever.
Humoral pathology, that pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or relating to bodily fluids

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century 1. of, relating to, proceeding from, or involving a bodily humor (as a hormone) 2. relating to or being the part of immunity or the immune response that involves antibodies secreted by B cells and circulating in bodily fluids

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 hist. of the four bodily humours. 2 Med. relating to body fluids, esp. as distinct from cells. Etymology: F humoral or med.L humoralis (as HUMOUR)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Humoral Hu"mor*al, a. [Cf. F. humoral.] Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever. Humoral pathology (Med.), the pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors of the body.

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