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Anatomical Terms and their Derivation

By F. Peter Lisowski; Charles E. Oxnard

Book information

Publisher
World Scientific
Year
2007
ISBN
9789812703873, 981270387X
Open Library ID
OL9198049M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
755 kB (773356 bytes)
Pages
137\137
Library
www.knigka.info
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04
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Description

Anatomical terms are the vocabulary of medicine. Anatomy began as a descriptive science in the days when Latin was the universal scientific language. Early anatomists described the structures they saw in that language, comparing them to common and familiar objects, or borrowing terms from the Greek and Arabic masters before them. In anatomic terminology, common Latin or Greek words are used as such for any part of the body for which the ancients had a name. For many other structures, scientific names have been invented either by using certain classical words which appear to be descriptive of the part concerned, or commonly, by combining Greek or Latin roots to form a new compound term. Memorization of such terms without understanding their meaning can lead to mental indigestion.

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