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Chapter 1 Introduction to Medical Terminology Medical terminology refers to the words and phrases which have been developed to describe the procedures, medications, instruments, anatomical structures, etc. used in the field of medicine. It is, in a very real sense, the language of medicine. Medical language, like the language of a people, also has a historical development. Current medical vocabulary includes terms built from Greek and Latin word parts, some of which were used by Hippocrates and Aristotle over 2000 years ago. With the advancement of medical and scientific knowledge, medical la