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
- 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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