Anatomical Terminology: With Special Reference to the Bna (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Barker, Lewellys F.

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ISBN 10: 1332047513 ISBN 13: 9781332047512

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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One name only is given to each structure, and the mass of synonyms which encumbered the text - books can thus be swept away. If one of the larger text books of gross anatomy be examined, as many as terms will be found employed, the-half of which are synonyms; and if the anatomical terms used in the various standard text - books be collected into one list, the total number amounts to more than It is no small achievement to have reduced the necessary number of terms in gross-anatomy, as it is known to-day, to less than 5000, - an achievement for which both students and teachers of the subject must be thankful.

Even more important is the exclusion from the list of all obscure or ambig uous terms, each name employed having a definite and easily ascertainable meaning. The construction of the list has led, too, to the establishment of cer tain general principles regarding the formation and use of anatomical terms, and these principles promise to be of great service in simplifying terminology and keeping it uniform as anatomical science continues to develop.

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Introduction.

Now that the BNA is being followed in medical and scientific schools throughout the world, and has been adopted as the language used in several of the newer English and American anatomical text-books and atlases, it has occurred to the publishers of Morris's Anatomy that a concise statement concerning the origin and exact nature of this list of anatomical terms would be interesting and helpful to anatomists, physiologists, biologists, pathologists, and clinicians. They have asked me to prepare this statement, and I do so gladly, in the hope that it may bring the terminology to the attention of many who do not yet know of it, and make clear, perhaps, certain misunderstandings that have existed in the minds of some who have heard of it, but are not yet really familiar with it. To know its origin, nature, and aims is, I feel sure, in the majority of instances at least, to decide to use it. That the sooner a general decision to adopt it is reached the better it will be for anatomical instruction and research, and the easier it will be for teacher and taught, it is the aim of the following paragraphs to show. They have not been difficult to write, for, aside from the experience I have gained by personally using the BNA in anatomical laboratories during the past ten years, the material for the account lay ready at hand in the articles of Krause and His and it has been necessary only to adapt it to the needs of readers in America and Great Britain. The article by Professor His has been followed especially closely, and parts of my account are no other than a free translation of his lucid paragraphs. The actual list of Latin names of the BNA is to be published at once by Messrs. P. Blakiston's Son & Co. and Messrs. J. & A. Churchill. It will be accompanied by a list of literal English equivalents which Dr. Benson A. Cohoe, Assistant Resident Physician in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, has been kind enough to help me to prepare. The English vocabulary is simply explanatory; in many instances it would be unwise to use the English synonyms given, and in many more instances anatomists would differ as to the most suitable English equivalent to be chosen. Each anatomist is of course at liberty to use whatever English equivalent he desires for the official Latin terms. Students are strongly advised, however, to use the original Latin terms as English words. The Latin terms are the only authorized ones.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1332047513
• ISBN 13: 9781332047512
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228