humoral

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: hu=mor=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

humoral, a. [Cf. F. humoral.].

 Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever.  [1913 Webster]

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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

humoral, adj.
1 hist. of the four bodily humours.
2 Med. relating to body fluids, esp. as distinct from cells.

Etymology

F humoral or med.L humoralis (as HUMOUR)

THESAURUS

humoral

adrenal, bloody, chylifactive, chylifactory, chylific, eccrine, endocrine, exocrine, glandular, glandulous, gonadal, holocrine, ichorous, lachrymal, lacrimatory, luteal, merocrine, ovarian, pancreatic, phlegmy, prostatic, purulent, pussy, rheumy, sanious, serous, splenetic, suppurated, suppurating, suppurative, tearlike, thymic, thyroidal