Avicenna

[ av-uh-sen-uh ]

noun
  1. a.d. 980–1037, Islamic physician and philosopher, born in Persia.

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Avicenna

/ (ˌævɪˈsɛnə) /


noun
  1. Arabic name ibn-Sina. 980–1037, Arab philosopher and physician whose philosophical writings, which combined Aristotelianism with neo-Platonist ideas, greatly influenced scholasticism, and whose medical work Qanun was the greatest single influence on medieval medicine

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Avicenna

[ ăv′ĭ-sĕnə ]


  1. See Ibn Sina, Hakim.

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