Jon Weingart, MD, discusses whether having a brain tumor means a patient needs surgery. Dr Weingart is a neurosurgeon and professor of Neurological Surgery and Oncology at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Surgery is one type of treatment for brain tumors.
Noun. 1. doctrine-a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school. ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought.
As this fast falls in the early part of. the year, it became confused with the season, and gradually the word Lent, which originally meant spring, was confined to this liturgical use. The Latin. name for the fast is Quadragesima derived from the Sunday which was the. fortieth day before Easter.