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Scientific terminology

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1960
Author
Hough, John N.
Publisher
New York, USA : HOLD, RINEHART AND WINSTON
Call Number
00 H81s
Author
Hough, John N.
Publisher
New York, USA : HOLD, RINEHART AND WINSTON
Published Date
1960
Physical Description
229 pages, 20.7cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Latin Greek
Languages
Language
Science
Abstract
This is a comprehensive classics language guide, Greek and Latin, aimed at students in the medical field, which explains the use of Latin in the English language from the alphabet to chemical suffixes.
Contents
The Greek and Latin alphabets -- Formation of English words -- General scientific vocabularies -- Latin forms and Latin grammar in scientific nomenclature -- Medical and pathological terminology -- Bacteriological nomenclature -- pharmaceutical terminology -- Biological terms -- The Linnaean system of biological nomenclature -- The reading and writing of Latin descriptions
Notes
The authors dedication to his wife is of interest from a women's rights perspective; it reads "...and to a fourth E S H who would have become a scientist had she not become my wife.", note this was published December of 1960.
Ben Gadd Personal Library
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
00 H81s
Collection
Archives Library
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