Endocrine terminology in Corpus Hippocraticum.

Many Greek and Latin medical terms are in use on account of the fact that modern day Western conventional medicine originates in Greek and Roman antiquity. The writings of Hippocrates and Galen, as well as of Celsus and Plinius, remain the principal source of the constituent elements of medical terminology and the base for the correctness of Western scientific onomatology. However, the number of Latin terms, with the exception of the vocabulary for medical low matters, is less than the number of Greek terms in all the specialties of medicine. Moreover, numerous hybrid formations, i.e. words composed of both Greek and Latin elements, exist in the Western medical terminology.