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Humoral

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
humoral

"pertaining to the humors of the body," 1520s, from Middle French humoral (14c.), from Latin humor (see humor (n.)).

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humoral

a. Of or relating to the body fluids or humours. alt. Of or relating to the body fluids or humours.

WordNet
humoral

adj. of or relating to bodily fluids

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Usage examples of "humoral".

If Lydgate had been aware of all the pride he excited in that delicate bosom, he might have been just as well pleased as any other man, even the most densely ignorant of humoral pathology or fibrous tissue: he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.