Praxagoras

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Prax·ag·o·ras

(prăk-săg′ər-əs) 4th century bc.

Greek physician who was the first to distinguish between arteries and veins.

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Cuando Praxagoras, en Las Asambleistas de Aristofanes, insta a las mujeres a que practiquen lo que van a decir en la asamblea, una de las mujeres presentes pregunta "?y quien de nosotras, bonita, no es especialista en chachara?" (10).

LA VOZ NEGADA: DISCURSOS SOBRE LA Palabra Y EL SILENCIO DE LA MUJER EN EL MUNDO CLASICO

Prassagoras is probably an alternate spelling for Praxagoras (325-275 BCE); likewise Ephilistion is probably Philistion (370-340 BCE); Galen, Method of Medicine, 3 vols., ed.

Maffei's System of Voice Pedagogy

Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries, Pulse and Pneuma: Fragments and Interpretation

The description of patients presenting with small bowel obstruction dates back to the 3rd or 4th century, when Praxagoras created an enterocutaneous fistula to relieve a bowel obstruction.

Diagnosis and management of subacute intestinal obstruction: a prospective study

In Ecclesiazusae, there is a stark difference between the women's cross-dressing and that of Praxagoras husband Blepyrus.

Humiliation? Voyeurism, violence, and humor in old comedy

El estudio Medicina en Atenas, alrededor 280 a.C., en el Centro de la Escuela Medica de Praxagoras.

Erasistratus of Ceos (310-250 A.C.). Pioneer of the anatomical studies/Erasistratus de Ceos (310-250 A.C.). Pionero de los estudios anatomicos

During the 4th century BC, the Stoics, Epicurians, Praxagoras and Diocles all nominated the heart, while Strato placed the seat of the soul between the eyebrows.

The nervous system in antiquity

Praxagoras de Cos era el maestro de la escuela hipocratica.

Anatomia en Grecia y Roma

Praxagoras of Cos is known for his discovery of the difference between veins and arteries.

van der Eijk, Philip. Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health, and Disease

Esta doctrina fue transmitida por Praxagoras de Cos a su discipulo Herofilo de Alejandria y este elaboro una sintesis de compromiso al hablar de un pneuma vital que se localiza en el ventriculo izquierdo del corazon y de un pneuma psiquico que se localiza en el cerebro y no contrariar asi a los hipocraticos (8).

Corazon e historia. Miguel Servet, un precursor

(16.) Aelius Praxagoras, the father-in-law of Demostratos, may have been included (rather than Sospis, the father of Demostratos) for reasons of affection (he had died relatively recently, in 191) or because he was far more famous.

A Family of Eumolpidai and Kerykes descended from Pericles

In a later distinction, generally agreed to have been formalized by Praxagoras, the arteries were believed to convey [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] and the veins blood through the body.