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Webster's 1913 Dictionary\Or*gan"i*cism\, n. (Med.) The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ. --Dunglison.
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| Definition: | [n] theory that the total organization of an organism rather than the functioning of individual organs is the determinant of life processes | ||
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| Definition: | \Or*gan"i*cism\, n. (Med.) The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ. --Dunglison. | ||
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