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Parent topics

• History of Medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ancient Greece [r]: The loose collection of Greek-speaking city-states centered on the Aegean Sea which flourished from the end of the Mycenaean age to the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 BC. ^[e]
• Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. ^[e]
• Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Galen [r]: (ca. 131 - ca. 201) Pergamum-born influential physician of antiquity, who produced a philosophically sophisticated synthesis of earlier medical theories of the body that was dominant until the seventeenth century. ^[e]
• Vesalius [r]: (1514 - 1564) Flemish physician who revolutionized the field of anatomy by laying the groundwork for a new, observation-based methodology, using dissections of human cadavers. ^[e]
• William Harvey [r]: (1579–1657) English physician who discovered the true nature of blood circulation and the function of the heart as a pump. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Hippocratic Oath [r]: An oath traditionally taken by physicians before practising medicine. ^[e]
• Epilepsy [r]: Brain disorder manifested as recurrent seizures or disturbed mental function, due to disturbances of brain electrical activity. ^[e]
• Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. ^[e]