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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

Patients flooded into the emergency room of the nearby Ibn Sina Hospital.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2023

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

He thought that the clashes would stop “within a couple of days,” Ibn Sina said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 2023

For example, philosophers like al-Farabi and Ibn Sina delved deeply into the philosophy of the ancient Greeks, including their systems of logic and medicine.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

We have already seen in Ibn Sina that the metals consist of the combination of sulphur and mercury.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely