Bioscience study

Introduction to Medical TerminologyAs students of medical science, we are inheritors of a vast fortune of knowledge. This fortune, amassed by giants of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholarship, was nurtured largely in the atmospheres of universities in which Latin and Greek were the languages of lecture and writing. Scientists then strove to define a universal language in which to communicate their findings. Latin and Greek, studied throughout Europe, became the languages of choice for