Aesculapian

See also: Æsculapian

English

Alternative forms

• Esculapian
• Æsculapian (archaic)

Etymology

From Aesculapius +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Aesculapian (comparative more Aesculapian, superlative most Aesculapian)

1. (literally) Of or relating to Aesculapius, the Greco-Roman god of medicine.

   The Aesculapian sanctuary on Kos island was also a center of medical learning and practice

2. (figuratively) Medical, concerning healing.

   Water therapy at famous springs is an Aesculapian method which recently came back in fashion, as when Bath reemerged from archaelogy to high-society spa

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V:

     […] for surely the gentlemen of the Aesculapian art are in the right in advising, that the moment the disease has entered at one door, the physician should be introduced at the other […]

Translations

of or relating to Aesculapius

• French: esculapien
• Portuguese: esculapiano

medical