say it: GAY-luhn
galen is a noun meaning "Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200)". It carries one recorded sense.
Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for galen come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.