| 单词 | humoral theory |
| 释义 | > as lemmashumoral theory humoral theory n. (a) the theory that the balance and condition of the four humours (see humour n. 1a), or (in later use) the body fluids generally, are responsible for states of health and disease (= humoralism n.); any theory of this nature (now historical); (b) any theory attributing a physiological role to specific chemical substances in the body fluids (cf. sense 1d); (Immunology) the theory that immunity, or a specific immunological phenomenon, is dependent upon the action of antibodies rather than cells. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > medical theories or doctrines > [noun] > humoralism or fluidism humoral theory1785 humorism1808 humoralism1822 fluidism1835 humorology1844 1785Humoral theory [see sense 1c]. 1800 J. Burns Diss. Inflammation II. ii. 236 Many of the older writers, proceeding upon the humoural theories, began their treatment of gangrene by bleeding and purging. 1849 Lancet 29 Dec. 701/1 The frequency with which vegetable poisons produced convulsions led him to favour the toxæmic or humoral theory of puerperal epilepsy. 1891Humoral theory [see sense 1d]. 1898 W. S. Lazarus-Barlow Man. Gen. Pathol. ix. 408 It was obvious..that a purely humoral theory..is insufficient, that natural immunity cannot be explained by the presence of ‘alexins’ in the blood. 1924 Brain 47 400 The ‘inhibiting substance’ theory (and the ‘humoral’ theory of Loewi and others) derives all its evidence from the peripheral inhibition of cardiac or plain muscle. 1954 H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. i. 2 The ancient humoral theories still persist in some of the words that we commonly use, indeed much of medical terminology is of Greek origin. 2005 Human Immunol. 66 335/1 In the humoral theory of organ transplantation, the endothelium of a donor organ is primarily targeted by alloantibody, either preexisting or developed de novo after transplant. < as lemmas |
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