Organicism

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Organicism \Or*gan"i*cism\, n. (Med.)
     The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers
     it always to a material lesion of an organ. --Dunglison.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  organicism
       n : theory that the total organization of an organism rather
           than the functioning of individual organs is the
           determinant of life processes