Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
theory that the total organization of an organism rather than the functioning of individual organs is the determinant of life processes;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Organicism \Or*gan"i*cism\, n. (Med.)
The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers
it always to a material lesion of an organ. --Dunglison.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
organicism
n 1: theory that the total organization of an organism rather
than the functioning of individual organs is the
determinant of life processes