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of or pertaining to medicine or a physician (uncommon as a prefix but common as a suffix; see -iatry) Greek ἰατρός (iatrós), healer, physician iatrochemistry, iatrogenesis-iatry: denotes a field in medicine emphasizing a certain body component Greek ἰατρός (iatrós), healer, physician podiatry, psychiatry-ic: pertaining to
Avicenna (980–1037) — Persian physician; Gerbrand Bakker (1771–1828) — Dutch physician, with works in Dutch and Latin on midwifery, practical surgery, animal magnetism, worms, the human eye, comparative anatomy, and the anatomy of the brain; Frederick Banting (1891–1941) — isolated insulin
Category: Medical doctors by specialty. ... Space medicine doctors (37 P) Sports physicians (1 C, 3 P) Surgeons (8 C, 9 P) T. Teratologists (11 P) Toxicologists (4 C ...
List of neurologists and neurosurgeons; List of deans and notable people at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine; List of New Zealand doctors; List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
In medicine, their meanings, and their etymology, are informed by the language of origin. Prefixes and suffixes, primarily in Greek—but also in Latin, have a droppable -o-. Medical roots generally go together according to language: Greek prefixes go with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes.
A medical specialty is a branch of medical practice that is focused on a defined group of patients, diseases, skills, or philosophy.Examples include those branches of medicine that deal exclusively with children (), cancer (), laboratory medicine (), or primary care (family medicine).
The English language uses many Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes. These roots are listed alphabetically on three pages: Greek and Latin roots from A to G; Greek and Latin roots from H to O; Greek and Latin roots from P to Z. Some of those used in medicine and medical technology are listed in the List of medical roots, suffixes and ...
Articles about physicians in general, as well as sub-categories covering different nationalities and specialties of physicians. Individual physicians (medical doctors) should be in the appropriate country (and specialty) category.