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Definition of Galen

1. Noun. Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200).

Definition of Galen

1. Proper noun. An ancient Greek physician. ¹

2. Proper noun. (Ancient Greek male given name), of mostly American usage. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Galen

1. (GaleniusGalenos) Cla udius, Greek physician and medical scientist in Rome, c. 130-201 A.D. See: Galen's anastomosis, Galen's nerve, veins of Galen, great vein of Galen. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Galen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biology and Its Makers by William Albert Locy (1908)
"Following venerated customs, he began his academic labors by 'reading' Galen, as others had done before him, using his dissections to illustrate what Galen ..."

2. Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court (1859)
"THE TOWN OF Galen vs. THE CLYDE AKD KOBE PLANK ROAD COMPANY. A town, in its corporate character, cannot maintain an action to set aside a contract made ..."

3. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1902)
"Galen Galen, the great Greek physician, who died at seventy years of ce, about 2OO AD, mentions Aster Atticus twice, as follows, in iis alphabetical ..."

4. The Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes by Zeno, Cleanthes (1891)
"Z 99 G Galen de cogn. anim. morb. v. 13. Kühn Z 188 Galen in ... 283 K.) Z 87, С 39 Galen Hipp, et Plat. plac. m. Galen Hipp, et Plat. ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"An epitome in English of the works of Hippocrates and Galen, by JR Coze, was published at Philadelphia in 1846. GalenA, a city of the United States, ..."

6. Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote (1888)
"Plato does not say, as Galen declares him to say, that the appetitive soul has ... 519 Galen represente Plato as saying that nourishment is furnished by the ..."

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