SARCOLOGY


Meaning of SARCOLOGY in English

särˈkäləjē noun

( -es )

Etymology: Greek sarko- (from sark-, sarx flesh) + English -logy

1. archaic : the anatomy of the soft parts — distinguished from osteology

2. : a theory that a part of the animal body taken into the human system nourishes or affects a corresponding part — compare doctrine of signatures , organotherapy

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