Biolexicon : a guide to the language of biology

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The vocabulary of biology is made easier through knowing the meanings of elements that make up whole words. English continues to adopt words from foreign languages and to build its vocabulary by inventing new words from old elements. Most of the words entering English every year reside in technical vocabularies and knowing what the elements mean prepares medical students and physicians, the practitioner of any  Read more...

Author(s): Charles Blinderman
Publisher: Charles C Thomas
Year: 1990

Language: English
Pages: 382
City: Springfield, IL
Tags: Biology -- Terminology;English language -- Etymology;Nomenclature;Natural history;Science;SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology;Biology

HALF TITLE: BIOLEXICONA Guide to the Language of Biology
TITLE PAGE: BIOLEXICONA Guide to the Language of Biology
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
PART I: INTRODUCTION
PART II: SOURCES
PART III: AFFIXES
PART IV: NATURAL HISTORY
PART V: BIRTH AND GROWTH
PART VI: ANATOMY
PART VII: CONCLUSION
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A: GRIMM'S LAW
APPENDIX B: ALPHABET
APPENDIX C: COMBINATION WITH AFFIXES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATIONS AND PERMISSIONS
INDEX.