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holism
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holism /hol·ism/ (hol´izm) the conception of man as a functioning whole.holis´tic
ho·lism (hlzm)
n.
1. The theory that living matter or reality is made up of organic or unified wholes that are greater than the simple sum of their parts.
2. A holistic investigation or system of treatment.
ho·listic (h-lstk) adj.
holism (hōˑ·li·zm),
n 1. the characteristic of being whole, complete, interconnected, indivisible, ordered. In medicine the concept is used to address the entire individual and context rather than focusing only on a part or diagnosis.
2. in biology, the concept according to which the sum of a phenomenon or system cannot be measured, reduced, or observed at the level below that of the entire system.
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