Archaic Medical Terms
- From: "Sam Vaknin, Ph.D." <palma@[redacted]>
- Subject: Archaic Medical Terms
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 01:52:41 +0200
http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm
This site covers
Archaic medical terminology
Terms that can be difficult to understand from a brief entry in a modern
dictionary
Descriptions for the more common causes of death in the past
A few terms that I thought would be easy to find a definition for, but
someone sent a query, so maybe they are difficult after all?
Some folk and slang terms
Symbols, Abbreviations & Qualifications
Some terms that have become everyday language, but have a different
meaning or slant when used by doctors or had a different meaning in the
past
e.g. Abortion, which has come to mean induced termination of pregnancy,
but doctors retain the meaning of a natural but premature ending to
pregnancy (miscarriage)
Some terms in common use, that many non-medical people do not understand
precisely what they mean e.g. Heart Attack, prognosis
Terms I have been unable to define, in the hope that someone out there
does know
Also
Text in square brackets and bold red type e.g. [ty'sis] is a guide to
pronunciation.
Sam
http://malignantselflove.tripod.com/thebook.html
http://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/after.html
[Moderator: If anyone knows of any other good glossaries or dictionaries
of archaic terms, please send them along-- they can be very useful
in helping readers understand many of the older texts now available
online! - JMO]