Definitions
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- Greek anatomist, physician, and philosopher. His theories, which emphasized maintaining a balance of the four humors, formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance.
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- proper noun An ancient Greek
physician . - proper noun A male
given name , of mostly American usage.
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- noun Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200)
Etymologies
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Examples
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At an event for George, the name Galen Weston cropped up in conversation.
American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007
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At an event for George, the name Galen Weston cropped up in conversation.
American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007
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The northern expedition of Jiang Jieshi's National Revolutionary Army, with the aid of Soviet general Vasili Blyukher (18891938, then using the name Galen), followed the old Taiping route from Guangdong through Changsha in Hunan (July 11) to Hankou (Sept. 6) and Wuchang (Oct. 10, captured on the 15th anniversary of the Republican Revolution).
1926, March 20 2001
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As we headed toward my car, she said, My Galen was a veterinarian.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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As we headed toward my car, she said, My Galen was a veterinarian.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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As we headed toward my car, she said, My Galen was a veterinarian.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Blucher, Vasily Konstantinovich: Known as Galen, he was the chief Russian adviser to Chiang Kai-shek at the military school of Whampoa.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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_Claudius Galenus_, commonly known as Galen, has influenced the progress of medical science by his writings probably more than any other medical writer.
Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine James Sands Elliott
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This was Claudius Galenus, commonly known as Galen, a man whose fame was destined to eclipse that of all other physicians of antiquity except Hippocrates, and whose doctrines were to have the same force in their field throughout the Middle Ages that the doctrines of Aristotle had for physical science.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904
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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
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
ruzuzu commented on the word Galen
"Galen saw himself as both a physician and a philosopher, as he wrote in his treatise entitled That the Best Physician is also a Philosopher. Galen was very interested in the debate between the rationalist and empiricist medical sects, and his use of direct observation, dissection and vivisection represents a complex middle ground between the extremes of those two viewpoints." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Galen&oldid=599569145
March 18, 2014