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

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

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• Publisher: ‎ Springer; 1st ed. 2017 edition (February 6, 2017)
• Language: ‎ English
• 260 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 3319503278
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-3319503271

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 book you will learn the answers to questions such as:

• What disease was named for an American space flight?

• Do you know the echoic word for elephantine rumbling of the bowels?

• What drug name was determined by drawing chemists’ notes out of a hat?

• What are surfer’s eye, clam digger’s itch, and hide porter’s disease?

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