| Description |
1 online resource (x, 126 pages) |
| Contents |
Abbreviations; Commonly Used Prefixes; Commonly Used Suffixes; Terms Common to All Anatomical Regions; Terms Important in the Upper Limb; Terms Important in the Lower Limb; Terms Important in the Thorax; Terms Important in the Abdomen and Pelvis; Terms Important in the Head and Neck; Terms Specific to the Nervous System; Alphabetical List of Terms |
| Summary |
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 t |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human anatomy -- Terminology
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Anatomy.
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Anatomy
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Animal Structures
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anatomy.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
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MEDICAL -- Anatomy.
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Anatomy
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Human anatomy
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| Genre/Form |
Terminology
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Nomenclatures.
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Nomenclatures.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oxnard, Charles E., 1933-
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| ISBN |
9789812706867 |
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9812706860 |
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