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

Excerpt from Anatomical Terminology: With Special Reference to the Bna 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.