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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.


ibn-Sina British  
/ ˌɪbənˈsiːnə /

noun

  1. the Arabic name of Avicenna

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Ibn Sina Scientific  
/ ĭb′ənsēnä /
  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

Al-Samaul Hussein Mansour, a Sudanese-British national, left his travel documents at his home amid his chaotic escape from the fighting in Khartoum, according to his younger brother, Ibn Sina Mansour.

From Seattle Times Jun. 15, 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

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

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 James Joseph Walsh

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