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Humoral

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to the body fluids or humours. not-comparable

    "Both the apocryphal belief in pre-transplant cross-match screening to discard active humoral immune response against the donor and the lack of sensible and reliable markers for detecting AMR give explanation to the surprising fact that AMR was nearly neglected in human renal transplantation during years."

  2. 2
    Pertaining to humorism. (The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.) historical, not-comparable

    "By predicating conception on differing humoral temperaments of men and women, medical theorists justified their own subjugation of women by cultivating a distinct female humorality responsible for behavior."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to bodily fluids wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English humerale, humorale, humoural, from Middle French humoral and Medieval Latin hūmorālis, from Latin hūmor. By surface analysis, humor + -al.

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