The term ethnography has come to be equated with virtually any qualitative research project where the intent is to provide a detailed, in-depth description of everyday life and practice.
Glans â This is the Latin word for acorn. Prostate â This is from the Greek expression pro histanai meaning that which stands before. In this case what it stood before were the testes. Seminal vesicle â Two interesting Latin roots appear here.
Origin of the word cancer. The disease was first called cancer by Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 BC). He is considered the âFather of Medicine.â Hippocrates used the terms carcinos and carcinoma to describe non-ulcer forming and ulcer-forming tumors. In Greek this means a crab.ater Roman physician, Celsus (28-50 BC) translated the Greek term into cancer, the Latin word for crab. It was Galen (130-200 AD), another Roman physician, who used the term oncos (Greek for swelling) to describe tumors. Oncos is the root word for oncology or study of cancers.