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Anatomy derives from Latin. Physiology, pathophysiology and operational terms derive from Greek.

• mananaysiempre 2y ago
  Amusingly, the word anatomy (“dissection”) is from Greek via Latin, from the very same root that we’re discussing here. Other English terms from the Greek root for “cut”: tomography (imaging through a lot of cross-sections); entomology (study of in-sects, critters with sect-ions in their bodies); dichotomy (division into two possibilities); atom (that which cannot be divided).
  • weebull 2y ago
    I was going to ask "What's an Ana and why are we cutting it?"
    • mananaysiempre 2y ago
      “Up” or “thoroughly”, apparently? Same prefix as in analysis, anaphora, anamorphism. Ancient Greek had a sprawling system of prefixes that one can’t really pick up by osmosis, it seems. (Complaints about noun morphology sound a bit hypocritical from a native speaker of Russian, I know, but it is what it is.)
      • leansensei 2y ago
        Same Ana as in Analysis, anaphylactic, anamorphic...