Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. III, 1949 Pastoral medicine General questions

Brevilineo

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BREVILINEO. — Adjective in use in the language of the Italian constitutionalist school that traces back to A. De Giovanni, G. Viola, N. Pende, to designate the human morphological type in which development in breadth of the body prevails, proportionally, over development in length: it is the opposite of longilineo (v.). N. Pende distinguished a sthenic brevilineo type and an asthenic brevilineo type; the first strong in development of skeleton, muscles, blood; the second with a thin and fragile skeleton, hypotonic and weak muscles, richness of lymph and relative poverty of blood. The two brevilineo types are predisposed to functional abnormalities and to different diseases (v. TIPO INDIVIDUALE).

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BIBL.: N. Pende, Le debolezze di costituzione, Rome 1928; id., Trattato di biotipologia umana individuale e sociale, Milan 1939.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), col. 87.

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Pende, Nicola. “Brevilineo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 87. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/brevilineo.

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Pende, Nicola. “Brevilineo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 87. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/brevilineo.

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  author    = {Pende, Nicola},
  title     = {Brevilineo},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {III},
  pages     = {87},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/brevilineo}
}

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