Hierarchy: #history of medicine (26 terms)

• From start to finish (Latin adverbial phrase (history of medicine / developmental psychology))

  A Latin phrase from Horace's Satires, literally meaning 'from the egg to the apples' (referring to the traditional course of a ...

• From the founding of the city (Latin adverbial phrase (history of medicine / medical chronology))

  A Latin phrase meaning literally 'from the founding of the city' (referring to the foundation of Rome in 753 BC). In academic c...

• Abbess (noun, feminine (history of medicine / social work))

  The superior of a Roman Catholic monastery of nuns (abbess). In the history of medicine and hospital care, abbesses played a vi...

• Abaeus (proper noun (medical mythology / anthropology))

  A Greek mythological epithet assigned to the god Apollo, derived from the town of Abae in Phocis, where the god had a famous te...

• Abalienation (noun, feminine (neuropsychology / clinical psychiatry / history of medicine))

  The act of alienating or the state resulting from it; mental alienation, derangement of the mind, or loss of cognitive psycholo...

• Abalienation (archaic variant) (noun, feminine (psychiatry / archaic variant))

  An archaic phonetic variant of the noun abalienation (mental alienation, loss of cognitive faculties). Introduced into the Roma...

• Abantiades (proper noun (medical mythology / patronymic))

  A Greek mythological patronymic used to denote the descendants of King Abas of Argos, the most famous being Perseus. In the his...

• The Abantiad (proper noun (medical mythology / Romanian substantivization))

  The articulated and Romanianized form of the patronymic Abantiades, directly representing Perseus, the son of Zeus and Danae. I...

• The Aban (illness entity) (proper noun (medical archaism / clinical demonology))

  An extremely rare archaic term attested in old Balkan apocryphal writings or healing manuscripts, denoting the symbolic or demo...

• Abaris (proper noun (medical mythology / history of medicine))

  A legendary figure in Greek mythology, known as Abaris the Hyperborean, a priest of Apollo, healer, and shaman attested by Pind...

• Abas (proper noun (medical mythology / patronymic))

  A legendary king of Argos in Greek mythology, grandfather of Perseus, renowned for his sacred shield endowed with magical power...

• Abbasids (noun, masculine plural (history of medicine / Islamic medicine))

  Members of the second great dynasty of caliphs who ruled the Islamic Caliphate (750–1258), centered in Baghdad. In the history ...

• Abason (illness entity) (proper noun (clinical demonology / history of ethnomedicine))

  A rare archaic and mythological term found in medieval superstitions and magic-medical manuscripts of Southern Europe, represen...

• Abducting structure (archaic) (noun (comparative anatomy / biomechanics / medical archaism))

  An old or regional anatomical term previously used to describe a muscular structure, ligament, or shunt canal that causes a dev...

• Abbot (noun, masculine (history of medicine / social work))

  The superior of a Roman Catholic monastery of monks (abbot). In the history of medicine and hospital care, abbots played a majo...

• Abbatial (adjective (history of medicine / social work))

  Pertaining to an abbey or an abbot; relating to the administrative structures, properties, or charitable institutions managed b...

• Abbey (noun, feminine (history of medicine / social work / architecture))

  A large, autonomous Catholic monastery governed by an abbot or an abbess, often comprising an ensemble of religious and adminis...

• Pertaining to a slaughterhouse (adjective (medical archaism / public hygiene))

  An archaic term used as an adjective to describe anything pertaining to, connected with, or originating from a slaughterhouse o...

• Abazoaia historical spa (proper noun / eponym (history of medicine / medical hydrology))

  A term used regionally or historically in the Eastern European area to designate mineral springs, old balneary resorts, or micr...

• Abbazia climatic resort (proper noun / eponym (medical climatology / history of medicine))

  The historical name (frequently used in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, currently Opatija in Croatia) of a renowned balneoc...