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humoural

humoural is the alternative form of humoral.

Meaning of 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
  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

Forms of humoural

comparativemore humoural
superlativemost humoural

Questions about humoural

What is humoural the alternative form of?
Humoural is the alternative form of humoral.

Words near humoural in the dictionary

  1. humorsome
  2. humorsomely
  3. humorsomeness
  4. humour
  5. humour'd
  6. humoural
  7. humoured
  8. humouredly
  9. humourful
  10. humouring
  11. humourise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: humoural (page history and authors); humoral (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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