Lexicon Orthopaedic EtymologyCRC Press, 1999/09/01 - 439 ページ Lexicon of Orthopædic Etymologyis more than a concise dictionary of over 800 terms. It also provides a chronicle of the field of orthopedics, recounting significant events, important people, and dates. Terms are defined, origins are traced back to the root word, relevant mythology is revealed, and the first physician recorded using a term is identified in context. Sample Term: Achillis, Achill(o) Latin Achillis, singular genitive form of the Greek proper name Acille¢us: "Achilles." e.g. tendo Achillisrefers to "the tendon of Achilles." The appellation is given to the tendo calcaneus: "the tendon related to the heel bone." This represents the conjoined tendon of insertion of the triceps sur muscle, which is comprised of the medical and lateral heads of the gastrocnemius muscle and the soleus muscle. Its fibers descend in a spiral arrangement to attach to the posterior aspect of the tuber of the calcaneus, from which it is separated by a synov |
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acetabulum anatomist anatomist and surgeon anatomy artery articular biceps brachii body bone calcaneus cartilage Celsus century A.D. characterized clavicle cognitive with Greek combining form compound digits Dioscorides Pedanius disease distal distinguish the combining distinguish the root elbow-joint English surgeon equivalent to Greek equivalent to Latin femoris flexor foot fossa fracture French surgeon Galen genus German anatomist German surgeon gives Greek gives Latin gives the adjective gives the diminutive Greek physician Hippocrates humerus joint known ligament ligamentum limb medial morbid muscle musculus neck nerve opposite to Greek opposite to Latin osseous pathologist pelvis posterior proximal refers represents resembles Greek resembles Latin Roman Rufus of Ephesus scapula sense skin spinal cord spine stem surface synonymous with Greek synonymous with Latin synovial tendon term describes term was introduced tibia tion tissue triceps brachii muscle tumor ulna United States surgeon vertebral vertebral column whence whence figuratively whence the eponym word is derived
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425 ページ - Remarks on that Kind of Palsy of the Lower Limbs, which is Frequently Found to Accompany a Curvature of the Spine and is Supposed to be Caused by it.
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398 ページ - Myographiae Comparatae Specimen ; or a Comparative Description of all the Muscles in a Man and in a Quadruped ; added is an Account of the Muscles peculiar to a Woman.
437 ページ - Manchester, published an inquiry into the nature and cause of that swelling in one or both of the lower extremities, which sometimes happens to lying-in women...
418 ページ - MELLANBY, E. 1918. The part played by an "accessory factor" in the production of experimental rickets. J. Physiol., Proc.