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Is there anything like this just for medical terminology?
by sebmellen 2y ago
Is there anything like this just for medical terminology?
- adzm 2y agoI'd say it's almost a subset. In fact in the introduction it explicitly mentions medical terms as an inspiration. https://www.affixes.org/introduction.html https://www.affixes.org/introduction.html > It was in the summer of 1995, while my former business partner and I were studying the displays in a medical museum in order to advise how to improve them, that he remarked that one of the things needed to enhance visitors’ enjoyment would be an explanation of the mysteries of medical terminology: the difference, say, between an -itis and an -algia, or between words starting in haemo- and hepato-. That conversation stayed with me. Increased exposure to the complexities of technical language, and to the diversification of knowledge that has led to sub-disciplines such as palaeophytogeography and psychoneuroendocroimmunology, whose names pile element upon element, reinforced a belief that a concise work was needed that interpreted the main word-forming affixes in English. Also the theme for medical and surgery terms https://www.affixes.org/themes/medsur.html https://www.affixes.org/themes/medsur.html
- theresistor 2y agoMy father was a Classics professor, and one of the most popular classes he taught was "Latin Terminology for Medicine and Law".