faun noun [C]. âº an âimaginary âcreature that is like a âsmall man with a âgoat's back âlegs, a âtail, âears, and âhorns. (Definition of faun from the Cambridge Advanced Learnerâs Dictionary & Thesaurus Â© Cambridge University Press).
Those who work in the medical profession use a specialized language called Medical Terminology to describe the objects and situations encountered in their fields, such as anastamosis and myocardial. The words or terms that make up the language of medicine are referred to as the terminology of the medical field, or Medical Terminology. Although languages usually change over time, the basis for medical terminology remains constant as the majority of medical terms are based in Latin or Greek.1.
Many terms used in the biological sciences are compound words; that is, words made up of one or. more word roots and appropriate prefixes and/or suffixes. Less than 400 roots, prefixes, and suffixes. make up more than 90% of the medical vocabulary. These combining forms are most often derived. from the ancient Latin or Greek. Prefixes are placed before the root term and suffixes are added after. The following list includes the most common forms used in anatomy, physiology and medicine and an. example for each. This list, and the word origin information found throughout your anatomy text book,