How to Use humoral in a Sentence

humoral

adjective

• Perhaps humoral theory was the best that scientific consensus could do at the time.
  — Harper’s Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• Doctors, following accepted practice, would likely have bled or purged an ill person for humoral balance.
  — Katherine Ott, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
• This versatility becomes even more interesting in light of humoral theory, which explains illness as an imbalance of hot, cold, wet, or dry qualities in the body, treated through plants of the opposite nature.
  — Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
• But unlike men who exploited humoral theory and biblical myths to denigrate women’s bodies and minds, Hildegard valorized the contribution of female difference to nature’s grand scheme.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
• Unlike men who exploited humoral theory and biblical myths to denigrate women’s bodies and minds, Hildegard valorized the contribution of female difference to nature’s grand scheme.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
• In the twelfth century, understandings of bodies and illnesses were grounded in humoral theory, and Hildegard followed these principles in her writings about conception, birth, and physical maternity.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026