Who is the creator of medical terminology?

Answer 1

Much of it came from the ancient Greeks, who arguably first started considering the practice of medicine as a specific discipline -- see Hippocrates as the non pareilseminal reference. Many medical terms come from Latin, the language of science. Latin -- like Ancient Greek -- are used to much in science because they're dead languages. Once something has a name, popular vernacular won't make it confusing at a later date. Today, when English-speakers try to light their cigarette, they use a match and not a lucifer (obsolete term used in 19th and early 20th century). Imagine how that confusion would effect your trip to the doctor! This, by the way, was the main reason the Catholic Archdiocese was so adamant about keeping their services in Latin for as long as possible. In the modern world, as medical technology springs from a wide variety or sources, but even computer based medicine, taxonomy telemetry still use Latin and Ancient Greek base as much as possible.