Definitions for Machaon

Machaon Ma·cha·on

Spelling: [muh-key-on]
IPA: /məˈkeɪ ɒn/

Machaon is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in Machaon (aachmno).

Definitions for Machaon

noun

  1. a son of Asclepius who was famed as a healer and who served as physician of the Greeks in the Trojan War.

Examples for Machaon

His family claimed descent from Machaon, the son of Esculapius.

So saying, he roused Machaon, who his course Through the wide host began.

Thus the word is not a vague epithet: the words simply mean, that the manful exertions of Machaon were arrested.

Machaon was surgeon to Menelaus and Podalarius was the pioneer of phlebotomy.

This practice of suction, no doubt, was known in Greece; Machaon performed it at the siege of Troy.

We here learn that in the heroic genealogy of the Asklepiads, the son of Machaon himself bore the name of Nikomachus.

Machaon wounded not with a great or fatal wound on the shoulder, he makes using intentionally a somewhat careless diet.

Talthybius did as he was told, and went about the host trying to find Machaon.

I can now see for myself that he is Machaon, shepherd of his people.

Get Machaon into your chariot and drive swiftly from the press of battle.

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