Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200)

Usage examples of galen.

Galen led the way out of the room into the hall where the mosaic floor and plastered walls presented colored temple scenes--priests burning incense at the shrine of Aesculapius, the sick and maimed arriving and the cured departing, giving praise.

Galen with eyes still sharp, a scrutinizing gaze that had kept the dwarves of Clan Battlehammer ducking defensively out of sight for many, many decades.

The tunnels were tighter, lower, and not as wide, which the dwarves thought a good thing, particularly with huge and ugly trolls chasing them, but which only made Galen spend half his time walking bent over.

He and the other four fell back, then, moving right to the base of the hole, just behind Galen, who continued to ferry dwarves up.

The Galenists were bitterly decrying his refusal to accept Galen on many points, and both of these works would have added fuel to the flame of controversy.

Circe and Maskelyne, standing beside Gowen, stopped their questioning, and they too looked toward Galen.

Galen and Gowen stopped outside, and as the doors closed, Galen caught a glimpse of a plain dais at the far end of the large, empty room.

The herpetologist lifted Folliet out of his travel cage and handed him to Galen.

The works of Hippocrates, Aretxeus, Galen, Celsus, and Aetius contain nothing relative to records of successful Cesarean sections.

At last, with the hint of some strange, scissorlike action, the shape moved to the side, and Galen passed by, nearly brushing against it.

Galen, that thou secretest veiled within thy deepest heart, is like to me!

Both Hippocrates and Aristotle discuss somnambulism, and it is said that the physician Galen was a victim of this habit.

Though he was called the Galen of his time, and looked up to the Greek physician as his master, even the authority of Galen did not override that of the Stagirite in his estimation.

Galen, although Pertinax welcomed her calmness as excusing unenthusiasm in herself.

Academy at Adigia, expecting to spend the rest of his life there, until Adigia was attacked by savage Adepts under the direction of a Reader: Galen, a boy Lenardo had trained but who had turned traitor to the empire.