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Re:In medicine what's the difference between an -ectomy, an ... by epilys on Thursday May 16, 2024 @01:53AM (#40375603)
To add to other comments, a positive thing with Latin and Greek jargon is that it's not intentionally obtuse, but a combination of stem words aiming to make up literal terms. Anesthesia for example means literally "not feeling". If there wasn't an influence of the classics to the natural sciences it could be notfeeling or notfeel in English.

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