Avicenna meaning

ĭb'ən sē'nə
Persian physician and Neo-Platonist philosopher noted for his Canon of Medicine, a standard medical textbook used in Europe until the 17th century.
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(Ar. ībn-sīnā) A.d. 980-1037; Islamic physician & philosopher, born in Persia.
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Persian physician and Neoplatonist philosopher noted for his Canon of Medicine, a standard medical textbook used in Europe until the 17th century.
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See Ibn Sina, Hakim.
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Latinized name of Ibn Sina, a Persian polymath.
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  • AVICENNA [Abu 'Ali al-Husain ibn 'Abdallah ibn Sinai (980-1037), Arabian philosopher, was born at Afshena in the district of Bokhara.

  • But amid his restless study Avicenna never forgot his love of enjoyment.

  • The medical literature of this period is extremely voluminous, but essentially second-hand, consisting mainly of commentaries on Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna and others, or of compilations and compendia still less original than commentaries.

  • On the birth of Avicenna's younger brother the family migrated to Bokhara, then one of the chief cities of the Moslem world, and famous for a culture which was older than its conquest by the Saracens.

  • Under him Avicenna read the Isagoge of Porphyry and the first propositions of Euclid.

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