Name ____________

Medical Latin

Using your favorite internet search engine, type in the Latin word or phrase. If a phrase, make sure to use quotes. Find a sentence on the internet with your word used correctly. Copy it into column A. Find the definition, and copy it into column B. In the long row underneath each word, copy and paste your internet source for column AType your name and print.

Latin Word used in English	A	B
rigor mortis
tabula rasa
mea culpa
requiescat in pace
in vino veritas
delirium tremens
persona
libido
superego
ego
id
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Professional and patient centred organisations (such as the NZMA, in fact most medical Associations around the world including the World Health Organization) use the "correct" and traditional symbol of medicine, the staff of Asclepius with a single serpent encircling a staff, classically a rough-hewn knotty tree limb. Asclepius (an ancient greek physician deified as the god of medicine) is traditionally depicted as a bearded man wearing a robe that leaves his chest uncovered and holding a staff with his sacred single serpent coiled around it, (example right) symbolizing renewal of youth as the serpent casts off its skin. The single serpent staff also appears on a Sumerian vase of c. 2000 B.C. representing the healing god Ningishita, the prototype of the Greek Asklepios.

Courtesy: http://drblayney.com/Asclepius.html

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Technology Services

2006-11-16

Spring Branch ISD