Medical Meanings: A Glossary of Word Origins

by William S. Haubrich

Book Overview

Adding some 300 words and phrases to the 3,000 original entries, this lexicographic work describes the origins of medical words from abdomen (from the Latin abdodere, to hide, in that ingestion of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930513496
• ISBN13: 9781930513495
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: American College of Physicians
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Invaluable!

I initially saw this product on google books when I got curious about why there is both an ileum and an ilium in the human body. As soon as I perused a few pages of it on there, I decided it was a book well worth having! As a medical student, I have had to learn a lot of unfamiliar terms in a very short period of time and I find knowing the origins really helps remember what is what; in particular, it made anatomy a lot easier. This book is the perfect balance between very informative and very readable, with occasional light humour. I would recommend it highly to any medical student or indeed anyone who is just curious as you can happily dip in and out of it, learning something really interesting on almost every page.

Great book for etymology

I am one of those people that learns and recalls better if I know the where the word came from and why it is called the way it is called. If you are one of those people, I highly recommend this book. It makes the medical world make a lot more sense.

Great book on etymology

Dr Haubrich's book is great! I own the hardcover first edition, and have found it quite useful. There are other older books on medical etymology (usually gathering dust in the stacks of medical libraries) that are much more detailed and have more information, but Dr Haubrich's is the most readable. Sometimes I just pick up this book and browse (can't do that with the other books!). All in all, I would highly recommend this book to everyone interested in this subject.