Tuesday 4 December 2012

Pancreatitis=إلتهاب البنكرياس

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Pancreatitis=إلتهاب البنكرياس

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:


pancreatitis (n.)
1842, medical Latin, from comb. form of pancreas + -itis.


pancreas (n.)
1570s, from Latinized form of Gk. pankreas "sweetbread (pancreas as food), pancreas," lit. "entirely flesh," from pan- "all" (see pan-) + kreas "flesh" (see raw), probably on notion of homogeneous substance of the organ.

pan-
prefix meaning "all, every, whole, all-inclusive," from Gk. pan-, combining form of pas (neut. pan, masculine and neuter genitive pantos) "all," from PIE *pant- "all" (with derivatives found only in Greek and Tocharian). Commonly used as a prefix in Greek, in modern times often with nationality names, the first example of which seems to have been Panslavism (1846). Also panislamic (1881), pan-American (1889), pan-German (1892), pan-African (1900), pan-European (1901), pan-Arabism (1930).


-itis Look up -itis at Dictionary.com
noun suffix denoting diseases characterized by inflammation, Modern Latin, from Gk. -itis, feminine of adj. suffix -ites "pertaining to." Feminine because it was used with feminine noun nosos "disease," especially in Gk. arthritis (nosos) "(disease) of the joints," which was one of the earliest borrowings into English and from which the suffix was abstracted in other uses.


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