The amazing language of medicine : understanding medical terms and their backstories / Robert B. Tay...
The amazing language of medicine : understanding medical terms and their backstories / Robert B. Tay...
The amazing language of medicine : understanding medical terms and their backstories / Robert B. Taylor.
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Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
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G 2017/2133
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English
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xxii, 238 pages ; 24 cm
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text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
About Medical Words and Their Origins -- Medical Words with Mythological Origins -- Descriptive Medical Terms: Activities, Actions, and Appearances -- Medical Words from Various Languages -- Medical Words Linked to Places -- Medical Metaphor, Simile, and Onomatopoeia -- Eponymous and Honorary Medica...
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Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
Date Published
[2017]
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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 and Osler, and in some truly unlikely sources. In this...
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The amazing language of medicine : understanding medical terms and their backstories / Robert B. Taylor.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic version: \\netapp2\adams\Department\Cataloging\ITS Export Files\John\jm041717.mrc
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G 2017/2133
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74VKVaKo3ldg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaKo3ldg
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ISBN
3319503278 paperback
9783319503271 paperback
DDC
610.14
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991024100911202626
