Transcript Language of the Health Sciences 1

1.
Who is Hippocrates?
a famous Greek physician of
antiquity (5th century B.C.) who is
called the father of medicine.
2.
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
a pledge of ethical professional
behavior taken by new physicians.
3.
Why is Latin important to medicine
and other scientific fields?
Physicians in the Middle Ages and
Renaissance (14th century) continued
to use Latin in their technical writing
and that as modern science
developed.
Latin or Latinized terminology was
used universally in medicine and
other scientific fields.
CORPORUS
caput
humerus
pectus
bracchium
digitus
femur
genu
facies
collum
cor
abdomen
manus
crus
pes
Derivatives I
English Word
Latin Root
Meaning of English Word
caput - head
per head, by
head
decapitate
caput - head
to cut off a
head
superficial
facies - face
on the surface
facies - face
pertaining to
the face
collum - neck
part of a garment
encircling the neck
per capita
facial
collar
collum - neck
a metal collar used
in watch making
humerus shoulder
relating to
the shoulder
pectus chest
relating to
the chest
pectus chest
to spit
coronary
cor - heart
relating to
the heart
cordial
cor - heart
friendly
collet
humeral
pectoral
expectorate
abdominal
brace
manipulate
manufacture
digital
abdomenabdomen
relating to
the abdomen
bracchium arm
support
manus hand
to operate or
control by skilled
used of the hands
manus hand
to make
digitus finger
relating to the
finger or an Arabic
numeral
femoral
femur thigh
relating to
the thigh
genuflect
genu -knee
to bend the
knee
crus - leg
pertaining to
the leg
pes - foot
a person
traveling on
foot
crural
pedestrian