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noun
The theory that disease is a result of structural alteration of organs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
The concept that everything is organic, or forms part of an organic whole.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The treatment of society or the universe as if it were an organism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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noun
The mereological idea that living things are the only composite objects.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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noun
The theory that the total organization of an organism is more important than the functioning of its individual organs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
theory that the total organization of an organism rather than the functioning of individual organs is the determinant of life processes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: scientific theory
History
Etymology tree English organic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English organicism From organic + -ism.
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