biography
| name: |
Dioscorides, Pedanius
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pronunciation:
[diyoskorideez]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (fl.1st-c)
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| biography:
| Greek physician, born in Anazarbus, Cilicia. He wrote De materia medica, the standard work on the medical properties of plants and minerals for many centuries. |
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