Syennesis (Ancient Greek: Συέννεσις) of Cyprus was a physician, who must have lived in or before the fourth century BCE, as he is mentioned by Aristotle, who quotes from his writings a passage on the origin of the veins. This fragment also forms part of the treatise De Ossium Natura in the Hippocratic Corpus, which is in fact composed entirely of passages taken from different ancient writers.
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- Aristotle, History of Animals iii. 2. § 3
- Hippocratic Corpus vol. i. p. 507
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Syennesis". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 3. p. 949.