organicism

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

organicism
    n 1: theory that the total organization of an organism rather
         than the functioning of individual organs is the
         determinant of life processes

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Organicism \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.
   [1913 Webster]

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