organicism

The concept that society or the universe is analogous to a biological organism, as in development or organization.

The doctrine that the total organization of an organism, rather than the functioning of individual organs, is the principal or exclusive determinant of every life process.

The theory that all disease is associated with structural alterations of organs.

In pathology, the doctrine of the localization of disease; the theory which refers all disease to material lesions of organs.

The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ.