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Aesculapian
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Æsculapian
English
Alternative forms
en Esculapian
en Æsculapian archaic
Etymology
From en Aesculapius -ian.
Adjective
en literally Of or relating to Aesculapius, the Greco-Roman god of medicine.
en The Aesculapian sanctuary on Kos island was also a center of medical learning and practice
en figuratively Medical, concerning healing.
en Water therapy at famous springs is an Aesculapian method which recently came back in fashion, as when Bath reemerged from archaelogy to high-society spa
V VII for surely the gentlemen of the Aesculapian art are in the right in advising, that the moment the disease has entered at one door, the physician should be introduced at the other
Translations
of or relating to Aesculapius
French: fr esculapien
Portuguese: pt esculapiano
medical
en eponyms