Adding some 300 words and phrases to the 3, 000 original entries, this lexicographic work describes the origins of medical words from abdomen (from the Latin abdodere, to hide, in that ingestion of food would be hidden away in the belly) to zyzzyva, a tropical weevil included because Haubrich (med.
American College Of Physicians Medical meanings: a glossary of word origins, hardcover/william s. haubrich
