'Brunonian' definitions:
Definition of 'Brunonian'
From: GCIDE
- Brunonian \Bru*no"ni*an\, a. Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation. [1913 Webster]