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ophthalmos + logos
Ophthalmos logos
Greek
Greek/ofˈθalmos ˈloɡos/English/ˌɒfθælˈmɒlədʒi/
“Ophthalmology — the study of the eye — was the first medical specialty to develop precision instruments, because the eye's transparency made it possible to see inside the living body for the first time.”
Greek ophthalmos meant eye — from the root op-, to see, combined with a suffix. Ophthalmology (ophthalmos + logos) is among the oldest medical specialties to develop its own instruments, because the eye's optical properties made observation possible in ways that other organs did not permit.
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