Medical Meanings: A Glossary of Word Origins, Second Edition
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ISBN: 1930513496 / Publisher: Amer College of Physicians, January 2003
Adding some 300 words and phrases to the 3,000 original entries, this lexicographic work describes t...
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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 food would be hidden away in the belly) to zyzzyva, a tropical weevil included because Haubrich (medicine, U. of California at San Diego) could "think of no better word with which to end a lexicon." Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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