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humoral

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hu·mor·al  (hymr-l)
adj.
1. Relating to bodily fluids, especially serum.
2. Relating to or arising from any of the bodily humors.
humoral [ˈhjuːmərəl]
adj
1. (Medicine) Immunol denoting or relating to a type of immunity caused by free antibodies circulating in the blood
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Physiology) Obsolete of or relating to the four bodily fluids (humours)
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Adj.1.humoral - of or relating to bodily fluids


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If Lydgate had been aware of all the pride he excited in that delicate bosom, he might have been just as well pleased as any other man, even the most densely ignorant of humoral pathology or fibrous tissue: he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.
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