Author: Lisowski
Publisher: World Scientific
PublishingISBN: 981270387X
Format: PDFProduct
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 termonology, common Latin 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 wordswhich 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. This book also presents the roots from which many of these descriptive terms and compounds are derived. This book is organized into abbreviations, prefixes/suffixes, terms to all body regions, short lists for major body parts and alphabetical list for the entire body.
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