title: Arabic urology in Byzantium.
abstract: Byzantine manuscripts contain texts that are explicitly presented--or can be identified--as translations from Arabic. The present article offers a general description of these texts and a first approach to their urological contents.
authors.affiliation: Washington Academy of Sciences and Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA. atouwaide@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Touwaide
mesh_terms: D018643:Arab World; D018612:Byzantium; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008514:Medicine, Arabic / Q000266:history*; D014572:Urology / Q000266:history*