Avicenna

[ av-uh-sen-uh ]

noun

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

Avicenna

/ ˌævɪˈsɛnə /

noun

1. Avicenna9801037MArabPHILOSOPHY: philosopherMEDICINE: physician 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

Avicenna

/ ăv′ĭ-sĕn′ə /

1. See Ibn Sina, Hakim.

Example Sentences

Hippocrates, Galenus, Avicenna, and other physicians of ancient times used their noses as diagnostic tools.

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Then there is a commentary on the "Cantica of Avicenna," and a tractate on the "Theriac."

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Hence, said Avicenna, God cannot have produced directly all the world we see in its complexity.

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Fen, s. chapter or subdivision of Avicenna's book called the Canon, C 890.

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Shut up your Galen, burn your Hippocrates, and put Avicenna in a corner: the father of them all is here in person.

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But amid his restless study Avicenna never forgot his love of enjoyment.

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