paracelsus

1. 1.

   Swiss physician who introduced treatments of particular illnesses based on his observation and experience; he saw illness as having an external cause (rather than an imbalance of humors) and replaced traditional remedies with chemical remedies (1493-1541)

   SynonymsPhilippus Aureolus ParacelsusTheophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim

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Other forms of paracelsus

plural

paracelsuses·

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.

Questions about paracelsus

What does paracelsus mean?

paracelsus means "Swiss physician who introduced treatments of particular illnesses based on his observation and experience; he saw illness as having an external cause (rather than an imbalance of humors) and replaced traditional remedies with chemical remedies (1493-1541)".

How many syllables are in paracelsus?

paracelsus has 4 syllables: pa-ra-cel-sus. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for paracelsus?

Close synonyms include Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus, Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is paracelsus a common word?

paracelsus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.