单词 | cardinal humour |
释义 | > as lemmascardinal humour cardinal humour n. historical any of the four principal humours of early physiology (blood, phlegm, choler, and black bile); cf. humour n. 1a. [Compare post-classical Latin humores cardinales (1731 or earlier).] ΚΠ 1830 T. Thomson Hist. Chem. I. v. 190 We are struck with the force of his [sc. Van Helmont's] arguments against the Galenical doctrine of fever, and against the influence of the cardinal humours on the different kinds of fever. 1939 Bull. Hist. Med. 7 977 Accordingly every disease appeared as a dyscrasia i.e., as an alteration in the mixture of the cardinal humors. 2016 Mawlana Rumi Rev. 7 164 According to traditional Islamic medicine based on the Galenic system, the four cardinal humours are phlegm (balgham), blood (dam), yellow bile (ṣafrā), and black bile (saudā). < as lemmas |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。