The Amazing Language of Medicine : Understanding Medical Terms and Their Backstories

• Main Author: Taylor, Robert B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Primary care (Medicine).; Medicine > History.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319503288
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50328-8
• Physical Description: XXII, 238 p. 139 illus., 96 illus. in color. online resource.

This book tells the intriguing and often colorful stories of the medical words we use. The origins of clinical and scientific terms can be found in Greek and Latin myths, in places such as jungles of Uganda and the islands of the Aegean Sea, in the names of medicine's giants such as Hippocrates...