Heliosis

"Heliosis" in a Sentence (2 examples)

The Greeks had their helioses and the Romans their solaria; yet heliotherapy has as yet scarcely emerged from the most empiric of performances into the dignity of a scientifically justified or rationalized procedure.

The Greeks and Romans constructed in their homes special sun parlors (called helioses or thermae).

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