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Lecture Two Warm-up Part I The Etymological Study of Medical Terms Words from Old English 1. Anatomic words: Ankle – ancleow ank- = “to bend” Back, bladder, blood, chest, ear, eye, foot, gum, hair, hand, knee, lip, liver, lung, neck, organ, throat, tongue. 2. Words denoting concepts ache (v.) acan in old English, meaning “ache, suffer pain”. – aeche in Middle English. Blind, breath, bruise, meaning “crush”. Cold, fever, heal, mind Words originated from Greek During and after the first century B. C., Romans borrowed a lot of Greek words into their own language. Since the Renaissa