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Chapter 1 Human Body as a Whole Medical Terminology① I . Introduction How many medical words are there in a medium-sized medical dictionary? The answer is around 100, 000, which is only a conservative estimate. Moreover, like the jargon② in all forward-moving fields, the number is expanding so constantly and quickly that it defies any memorization! There are tools, however, that can aid in learning and remembering medical terms and even help in making informed guesses as to the meaning of unfamiliar words. Furthermore, their numbers are limited, about 400 to 500 or so (the most active ones