Main > Medical terms> Biotype

Biotype

Biotype (Greek bios – life, belonging to life, to vital processes + Greek typos – a sample, a print, type):

  1. The complex of invariable physiological, mental and morphological individual properties of the person defining his formation as individual;
  2. Basic concept of biotypology which is applied in modern medicine as unilateral criterion of allocation of the determining tendency of an individual to a certain disease.
 
Whether you know that:

Scientists from the Oxford university conducted a number of researches during which they came to a conclusion that vegetarianism can be harmful to a human brain as leads to decrease in its weight. Therefore scientists recommend not to exclude completely from the diet fish and meat.