Dictionary entry

Iatromathematician

Webster's Dictionary 1913

I‐a′tro‐math′e‐ma‐ti″cian (?), n. [Gr. � physician + E. mathematician.] (Hist. Med.) One of a school of physicians in Italy, about the middle of the 17th century, who tried to apply the laws of mechanics and mathematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; — opposed to the iatrochemists.