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• ibn Sina
  ibn Sina

  noun

  Arabic name of Avicenna.
• ibn-Sina
  ibn-Sina

  noun

  the Arabic name of Avicenna
• Ibn Sina
  Ibn Sina

  Persian physician and philosopher whose medical textbook, The Canon of Medicine, is a comprehensive medical encyclopedia that remained a standard work in European medical studies until the 17th century.

ibn Sina

American  

[ib-uhn see-nah] / ˌɪb ən ˈsi nɑ /

noun

1. Arabic name of Avicenna.

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ibn-Sina British  

/ ˌɪbənˈsiːnə /

noun

1. the Arabic name of Avicenna

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Ibn Sina Scientific  

/ ĭb′ənsē′nä /

1. Persian physician and philosopher whose medical textbook, The Canon of Medicine, is a comprehensive medical encyclopedia that remained a standard work in European medical studies until the 17th century.

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Scientists such as Newton, Kepler and ibn-Sina saw their work to understand the universe as one of worship.

From Forbes ● Feb. 6, 2012

The military said that gunmen then fled in vehicles and ambulances toward Jenin's Ibn Sina Hospital, and that troops stopped one of the vehicles at the entrance to the hospital.

From Reuters ● Nov. 17, 2023

Ibn Sina, a retired aviation engineer, came to Aswan from London to be closer to his older brother.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

Yazan al-Jaabari, 19, died from wounds he sustained on Jan. 2, Ibn Sina hospital in the southern town of Jenin said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2023

The tradition of medical writing built upon the foundation established by such famous Muslim scholars and physicians as Ibn Sina, who composed The Canon of Medicine in the tenth century.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Undoubtedly the most important of Abulcasis' contemporaries is the famous physician whose Arabic name, Ibn Sina, was transformed into Avicenna.

From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by Walsh, James Joseph