Introduction

Medical terminology refers to the wordhe procedures, medications, instruments, anatomical structures, etc. used in the field of medicine. It is, in a very real sense, the language of medicine.Medical terminology has a long and rich history. Most medical terms derive from Latin or Greek. So if at first medical terminology appears to be a foreign language - well... that's because it is! But don't despair. Like any language, the language of medicine adheres to a set of fairly simple rules.