Erasistratus

[ er-uh-sis-truh-tuhs ]

noun

1. c300–250 b.c., Greek physician and physiologist.

Example Sentences

Erasistratus, his physician, had without much difficulty perceived that he was in love, but could not guess with whom.

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These earliest of really scientific investigators of the mechanism of the human body were named Herophilus and Erasistratus.

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Therefore, the reply of Erasistratus in his treatise On Deglutition was neither rhetoric nor logic.

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For they must all be accomplished in one and the same way, even according to Erasistratus himself.

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According to the former one the Peripatetics had no accurate acquaintance with Nature, and according to the second, Erasistratus.

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