Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou, Spyros G. Marketos
Many Greek and Latin medical terms are in use on account of the fact that modern day Western conventional medicine originates in Greek and Roman anti-quity. The writings of Hippocrates and Galen, as well as of Celsus and Plinius…
Theano D. Kontopoulou, Spyros G. Marketos
Many medical terms have a long history. They are first introduced as a concept and later acquire their proper name. In this article we trace the origin of the term homeostasis, which in modern medicine means the complex balance and the constancy of all aspects of body function and the coordinated regulation of its component fluids and cells…