faun noun [C]. âº an âimaginary âcreature that is like a âsmall man with a âgoat's back âlegs, a âtail, âears, and âhorns. (Definition of faun from the Cambridge Advanced Learnerâs Dictionary & Thesaurus Â© Cambridge University Press).
Those who work in the medical profession use a specialized language called Medical Terminology to describe the objects and situations encountered in their fields, such as anastamosis and myocardial. The words or terms that make up the language of medicine are referred to as the terminology of the medical field, or Medical Terminology. Although languages usually change over time, the basis for medical terminology remains constant as the majority of medical terms are based in Latin or Greek.1.
MDCA 1313 introduces basic medical terminology including an overview of pathogenesis, pathology, diagnosis, manifestations, detection and treatment of common medical/surgical disease or conditions. 1  1. Learn the meaning of Greek and Latin word parts and the rules for connecting them to form medical terms. 2. Be able to use prefixes, word roots, combining forms and suffixes to build medical words. 3. Recognize certain body systems according to anatomical terms, word parts and medical terms.