The language of medicine is an old one which started with the first curious civilizations. It was an ancient art before the Father of Modern Medicine, Hippocrates, was born. Because of that, Latin and Greek are the foundation of Medical Terminology. There are new words which are French, Arabic, German, British and American, but they are rare compared with the massive amount of words used in healthcare.
Primarily Greek, and also Latin.
The disadvantage of memorizing medical terms, as opposed to learning their contstruction, is that it makes you less able to interpret a new word. Learning the roots, prefixes, and suffixes will allow you to spell and understand unfamiliar medical terminology.
Anatomical terminology is terminology which describes parts of the body. The majority of Anatomical terminology is overwhelmingly derived from Latin, followed by Greek.
This word doesn't exist in any resource I can find, nor is it consistently constucted from Latin or Greek roots, as is most medical terminology. However, from the "roots" of the word, I would guess that it refers to insomnia related to caffeine consumption.
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The word 'stomach' is within anatomical terminology. However, when discussing conditions of the stomach, medical terminology uses the root 'gastr' in addition to prefixes, suffixes and any additional roots plus combining vowels to put them all together smoothly. An example would be 'gastroenteritis' referring to inflammation (itis) of the stomach (gastr) and intestines (enter).
No, it is a Romanic language derived from Latin. The appended language tree shows its roots.
It's incomplete, although one wouldn't think so otherwise unless observing a missing root, yet never-the-less quite comprehensive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_roots
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Etymology is the science of Language and it's roots.