Semen — generative material

Faculty and material of generation

The semen marker separates generative material from the testicular organ so that the backlog's testes/semen distinction remains visible. Its lower-abdominal position is an editorial body projection, not a claim that the Canon treats semen as a discrete reservoir at this exact coordinate.

Heart — vital memberBrain — mental and sensory memberLiver — nutritive memberTestes — generative memberSemen — generative materialSemen — generative materialBones — structural member

Point 5 of 6 in Avicenna's Canon — Humours and Essential Members

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), al-Qānūn fī al-ṭibb (The Canon of Medicine), Book I (primary_canonical)

Book I, §123, distinguishes generative members from the material and faculties involved in generation, including semen in the discussion of generative functions; the text does not prescribe a normalized semen point.

Peter E. Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith, Medieval Islamic Medicine (scholarly_modern)

Historical study of Islamic medicine's Galenic and Arabic developments, including Avicenna's humoral framework and Canon reception; it supports historical context but does not supply this normalized body diagram.

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