Cirrhosis, ophthalmology, and paediatrics are all derived from Classical Greek. English, Russian, Portuguese, and Turkish all have the option of borrowing te

Cirrhosis, ophthalmology, and paediatrics are all derived from Classical Greek. English, Russian, Portuguese, and Turkish all have the option of borrowing technical vocabulary from Greek (or other languages), but because of its syllabic structure, borrowing into Chinese is more problematic as it's difficult or impossible to render foreign words phonetically.