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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