TY - JOUR ID - 45616 TI - An Etymological Study of Some Selected Names of Anatomy Science JO - Journal of Research on History of Medicine JA - RHM LA - en SN - AU - Ghalekhani, Golnar AD - Assistant Professor of Ancient Culture and Languages of Iran, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 7 IS - 3 SP - 179 EP - 192 KW - Medicine KW - Anatomy KW - Etymology KW - Persian Language KW - Indo-European Language DO - N2 - Anatomy is one of the most fundamental sciences related to medical science. Specialized vocabularies related to this science is often made by using the vocabularies available in Greek and Latin languages. Interestingly, many of these vocabularies have the same roots with the vocabularies in Persian language. The current Persian language is a continuation of the Middle Persian language, which is the continuation of Old Persian language itself, and the Old Persian along with the other Iranian Languages and ancient languages of India and the ancient European languages, all of which are rooted in the more ancient language called Indo-European languages. In the present research, seventeen fundamental words and their roots have been investigated, which we can see their association with the Persian language. The words used in this Research include the root of the names of body members such as the head, brain, eye, mouth, etc.; as the vocabularies used for composing specialized vocabularies, which will be considered here. UR - https://rhm.sums.ac.ir/article_45616.html L1 - https://rhm.sums.ac.ir/article_45616_689c249a561c357fd04c3b30ba46f872.pdf ER -