humorally

English

Adverb

humorally (not comparable)

1. In terms of, or by means of, the bodily fluids or humours.
   • 1905, Francis Washington Everard Hare, The Food Factor in Disease:

     Here, however, I shall attempt no scientific classification, but shall content myself with alluding to some of the best known conditions which have been shown to conduce to the paroxysmal neuroses, but which can hardly operate humorally, that is, by favouring hyperpyraemia or toxaemia of any kind.