humoral

Adjective

humoral (not comparable)

1. Relating to the body fluids or humours.
   • Both the apocryphal belief in pre-transplant cross-match screening to discard active humoral immune response against the donor and the lack of sensible and reliable markers for detecting AMR give explanation to the surprising fact that AMR was nearly neglected in human renal transplantation during...2009, Giuseppe Remuzzi, Stefano Chiaramonte, N. Perico, Humoral Immunity in Kidney Transplantation, page 118
   • Thus, the demonstration of the presence of: a thymic-lymphocytosis promoting factor in mice (Metcalf, 1958); a humoral lymphocyte stimulating factor in the serum of irradiated rats (Ito and Weinstein, 1963); a thymic lymphopoietic factor, "thymosin" (Goldstein et al., 1966); and a lymphocytosis...2012, Joseph Lobue, Albert S. Gordon, Humoral Control of Growth And Differentiation, page 52
2. (historical) Pertaining to humorism. (The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.)
   • By predicating conception on differing humoral temperaments of men and women, medical theorists justified their own subjugation of women by cultivating a distinct female humorality responsible for behavior.2019, Amy Kenny, Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage, page 4
   • The planets are used as symbols in Culpeper's humoral philosophy, and the way he uses them had developed within hermetic philosophy.2021, Stephen Taylor, The Humoral Herbal: In Good Humour, page 6