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.
Earliest recorded form of the word in English is propitiatorium the mercy seat, place of atonement (c.1200), translating Greek hilasterion. propitiation in the Bible Expand. that by which God is rendered propitious, i.e., by which it becomes consistent with his character and government to pardon and bless the sinner. The propitiation does not procure his love or make him loving; it only renders it consistent for him to execise his love towards sinners. In Rom. 3:25 and Heb. 9:5 (A.V., mercy-seat) the Greek word _hilasterion_ is used.