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The term monastery is used generically to refer to any of a number of types of religious community. In the Roman Catholic religion and to some extent in certain branches of Buddhism, there is a somewhat more specific definition of the term and many related terms. Buddhist monasteries are generally called vihara (Pali language el). Viharas may ...
This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.
Medical practice was highly important in medieval monasteries. Caring for the sick was an important obligation. There is evidence of this from the monastery Vivarium, the monastery of Cassiodorus, whose monks were instructed to read the medical works of Greek writers such as Hippocrates, Galen, and Dioscorides.
A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. They were created by the Catholic Church. Priories may be monastic houses of monks or nuns (such as the Benedictines, the Cistercians, or the Charterhouses). Houses of canons & canonesses regular also use this term, the alternative being "canonry".
A Novice is an Oblate candidate only at the monastery of enrollment, but may seek that Abbott's written permission to transfer to another monastery. For those monasteries that set a Noviciate time limit, those who do not meet that deadline may become an Inquirer again and also may inquire of other Oblates and Third Orders.
The cloister of Sénanque Abbey, Provence Church of the former Bath Abbey, Somerset An interior of the Bridgettine's Nådendal Abbey, a medieval Catholic monastery in Naantali, Finland. An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess.
Definition page from Amy Pope's 'A medical dictionary for nurses' (1914) A medical dictionary is a lexicon for words used in medicine. The four major medical dictionaries in the United States are Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, Stedman's, Taber's, and Dorland's. Other significant medical dictionaries are ...
Monasticism (from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós) 'solitary, monastic'; from μόνος (mónos) 'alone'), also called monachism or monkhood, is a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual activities.