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Zayn al-Din Gorgani, the Glossary

Zayn al-Din Sayyed Isma‘il ibn Husayn Gorgani (c. 1040–1136), also spelled al-Jurjani, was a Persian 12th century royal Islamic physician from Gorgan, Iran.^[1]

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1136 deaths
12th-century Iranian physicians
Medieval Iranian pharmacologists

Ahmad ibn Farrokh

Ahmad ibn Farrukh, also written Ahmad-i Farrokh, was a 12th-century Persian physician from Herat. Zayn al-Din Gorgani and Ahmad ibn Farrokh are 12th-century Iranian physicians.

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Ahmad Sanjar (احمد سنجر; full name: Muizz ad-Dunya wa ad-Din Adud ad-Dawlah Abul-Harith Ahmad Sanjar ibn Malik-Shah) (6 November 1086 – 8 May 1157) was the Seljuq ruler of Khorasan from 1097 until 1118, Encyclopædia Iranica when he became the Sultan of the Seljuq Empire, which he ruled until his death in 1157.

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Anatomy

Anatomy is the branch of morphology concerned with the study of the internal structure of organisms and their parts.

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Antidote

An antidote is a substance that can counteract a form of poisoning.

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Anushtegin dynasty

The Anushtegin dynasty or Anushteginids (English:, خاندان انوشتکین), also known as the Khwarazmian dynasty (خوارزمشاهیان) was a PersianateC. E. Bosworth:.

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Atsiz

Ala al-Din wa-l-Dawla Abu'l-Muzaffar Atsiz ibn Muhammad ibn Anushtegin (علاءالدين و الدوله ابوالمظفر اتسز بن محمد بن انوشتگین; 1098 – 1156), better known as Atsiz (اتسز) was the second Khwarazmshah from 1127 to 1156.

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Avicenna

Ibn Sina (translit; – 22 June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers. Zayn al-Din Gorgani and Avicenna are court physicians and medieval Iranian pharmacologists.

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Caleb Hillier Parry

Caleb Hillier Parry (21 October 1755 – 9 March 1822) was an Anglo-Welsh physician credited with the first report of Parry–Romberg syndrome, published in 1815, and one of the earliest descriptions of the exophthalmic goiter, published in 1825.

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Diagnosis

Diagnosis (diagnoses) is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon.

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Disease

A disease is a particular abnormal condition that adversely affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism and is not immediately due to any external injury.

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Endocrinology

Endocrinology (from endocrine + -ology) is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones.

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Ethics

Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.

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Exophthalmos

Exophthalmos (also called exophthalmus, exophthalmia, proptosis, or exorbitism) is a bulging of the eye anteriorly out of the orbit.

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Fever

Fever or pyrexia in humans is a body temperature above the normal range due to an increase in the body's temperature set point in the hypothalamus.

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Goitre

A goitre, or goiter, is a swelling in the neck resulting from an enlarged thyroid gland.

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Gorgan

Gorgan (گرگان) is a city in the Central District of Gorgan County, Golestan province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district.

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Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman

Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman is an Indian scholar of Unani medicine.

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Hygiene

Hygiene is a set of practices performed to preserve health.

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Ibn Abi Sadiq

Ibn Abi Sadiq al-Naishaburi, Abu al-Qasim ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn ‘Ali (Arabic and Persian: أبوالقاسمعبد الرحمن بن علي بن أبي صادق النيشابوري) was an 11th-century Persian physician from Nishapur in Khorasan.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Islamic Golden Age

The Islamic Golden Age was a period of scientific, economic and cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century.

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Islamic philosophy

Islamic philosophy is philosophy that emerges from the Islamic tradition.

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Khafi Alayee

The Khofi Alayee was written by Zayn al-Din Gorgani (1040–1136) also spelled al-Jurjani, after writing the first great Persian medical encyclopedia, the Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi also wrote the Khafi Alayee in the Persian language as a contracted form of the Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi.

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Khwarazm

Khwarazm (Hwârazmiya; خوارزم, Xwârazm or Xârazm) or Chorasmia is a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia, bordered on the north by the (former) Aral Sea, on the east by the Kyzylkum Desert, on the south by the Karakum Desert, and on the west by the Ustyurt Plateau.

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List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars

The following is a list of Persian scientists, engineers, and scholars who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age.

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Medicine in the medieval Islamic world

In the history of medicine, "Islamic medicine" Also known as "Arabian medicine" is the science of medicine developed in the Middle East, and usually written in Arabic, the lingua franca of Islamic civilization.

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Merv

Merv (Merw, Мерв, مرو; translit), also known as the Merve Oasis, was a major Iranian city in Central Asia, on the historical Silk Road, near today's Mary, Turkmenistan.

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Muhammad I of Khwarazm

Qutb ad-Din Muhammad (قطب الدين محمد; full name: Qutb ad-Dunya wa ad-Din Abul-Fath Muhammad Arslantegin ibn Anushtegin) was the first Shah of Khwarezm from 1097 to 1127.

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Palpitations

Palpitations are perceived abnormalities of the heartbeat characterized by awareness of cardiac muscle contractions in the chest, which is further characterized by the hard, fast and/or irregular beatings of the heart.

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Persians

The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran.

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Physiology

Physiology is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system.

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Poison

A poison is any chemical substance that is harmful or lethal to living organisms.

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Prognosis

Prognosis (Greek: πρόγνωσις "fore-knowing, foreseeing";: prognoses) is a medical term for predicting the likelihood or expected development of a disease, including whether the signs and symptoms will improve or worsen (and how quickly) or remain stable over time; expectations of quality of life, such as the ability to carry out daily activities; the potential for complications and associated health issues; and the likelihood of survival (including life expectancy).

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Robert James Graves

Robert James Graves (27 March 1796 – 20 March 1853) was an Irish surgeon after whom Graves' disease takes its name.

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Safavid Iran

Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire,, officially known as the Guarded Domains of Iran, was one of the largest and long-standing Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty.

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Schools of Islamic theology

Schools of Islamic theology are various Islamic schools and branches in different schools of thought regarding creed.

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Seljuk Empire

The Seljuk Empire, or the Great Seljuk Empire, was a high medieval, culturally Turco-Persian, Sunni Muslim empire, established and ruled by the Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks.

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Skin condition

A skin condition, also known as cutaneous condition, is any medical condition that affects the integumentary system—the organ system that encloses the body and includes skin, nails, and related muscle and glands.

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Surgery

Surgery is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (i.e., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery such as gastric bypass), to reconstruct or improve aesthetics and appearance (cosmetic surgery), or to remove unwanted tissues (body fat, glands, scars or skin tags) or foreign bodies.

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The Canon of Medicine

The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fī l-ṭibb; Qānun dar Teb; Canon Medicinae) is an encyclopedia of medicine in five books compiled by Muslim Persian physician-philosopher Avicenna (ابن سینا, ibn Sina) and completed in 1025.

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Traditional medicine

Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous medicine or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within the folk beliefs of various societies, including indigenous peoples, before the era of modern medicine.

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Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi

Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi (ذخیرهٔ خوارزمشاهی Zakhīra-i Khwârazmshâhī, "Treasure Dedicated to the King of Khwarazm" or Treasure of Khwarazmshah), is a Persian medical encyclopedia written by the Persian physician, Ismail Gorgani (1040-1136) in 1110.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zayn_al-Din_Gorgani

Also known as Al-Sayyid Isma‘īl, Hakim Esmail Jorjani, Ismail Gorgani, Isma‘īl ibn Muhammad al-Husayn al-Jurjānī, Zayn al-Din al-Jurjani.

Zayn al-Din Gorgani, the Glossary

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1136 deaths

12th-century Iranian physicians

Medieval Iranian pharmacologists

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