Avicenna

[ av-uh-sen-uh ]

noun

1. a.d. 980–1037, Islamic physician and philosopher, born in Persia.

Avicenna

/ ˌævɪˈsɛnə /

noun

1. Avicenna9801037MArabPHILOSOPHY: philosopherMEDICINE: physician Arabic name ibn-Sina. 980–1037, Arab philosopher and physician whose philosophical writings, which combined Aristotelianism with neo-Platonist ideas, greatly influenced scholasticism, and whose medical work Qanun was the greatest single influence on medieval medicine

Avicenna

/ ăv′ĭ-sĕn′ə /

1. See Ibn Sina, Hakim.

Example Sentences

Cochran, who is also a writer, created a company called Avicenna Development Corporation to house both his intellectual property and Beagle’s.

From New York Times

They were herded into trucks and cars and taken to the Avicenna Medical Hospital for Drug Treatment, a former U.S. military base that in 2016 was converted into a drug treatment center.

From Seattle Times

This is why it was so easy for my mom and dad to become doctors like Avicenna, because your blood is a very complicated river of information inside every part of your body.

From Literature

By midnight, they were taken to the Avicenna Medical Hospital for Drug Treatment, on the edges of Kabul.

From Seattle Times

The Avicenna engineer, who has collaborated with U.S. researchers, says she and her family had to abandon their apartment in Kabul earlier this week.

From Science Magazine