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unusual facts about Medical terminology


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Cruciate ligament

By the time in the Late Latin period when Latin medical terminology was being established, this old meaning of cruciare seems to have fallen out of use in common speech, and the word was re-invented with the meaning "arrange in cross shape".


see also

Clinical Care Classification System

Indexed to the MEDCIN ® terminology through a contextual hierarchy to the full array of medical terminology standards and concepts with intelligent prompting (IP).

Periodontitis

The word "periodontitis" comes from the Greek peri, "around", odous (genitive odontos), "tooth", and the suffix -itis, in medical terminology "inflammation".