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THE AMAZING LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE - ROBERT B TAY...

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? This book can give you new insights into the terms we use every day in the
clinic  hospital  and laboratory. Knowing a word's history assists in understanding not only
what it means  but also some of the connotative subtleties of terms used in diagnosis and
treatment. The Amazing Language of Medicine is intended for the enrichment of physicians  other
health professionals  students  and anyone involved in clinical care and medical science.

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