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Descriptor English: Humoralism
Descriptor Spanish: Humoralismo
Descriptor humoralismo
Scope note: Doctrina médica de la antigua Grecia que plantea que la salud y la enfermedad se producen por el equilibrio o desequilibrio de los líquidos o "humores" corporales. Los humores son la sangre, la flema, la bilis amarilla y la bilis negra.
Descriptor Portuguese: Teoria Humoral
Descriptor French: Humorisme
Tree number(s): K01.752.667.750
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019364
Scope note: An ancient Greek medical theory that health and illness result from a balance or imbalance of body fluids or "humors". The humors are blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 97
History Note: 97
DeCS ID: 33193
Unique ID: D019364
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1997/01/01
Date of Entry: 1996/06/10
Revision Date: 1999/11/03
Humoralism - Preferred
Concept UI M0028819
Scope note An ancient Greek medical theory that health and illness result from a balance or imbalance of body fluids or "humors". The humors are blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
Preferred term Humoralism



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