摘要：Today's overburdened premedical and medical curricula leave little room for the cultivation of languages or humanistic studies. However one may view this fact, it is not likely that any but the smallest number of medical students and physicians will ever again be familiar with Latin or Greek. Most will perforce miss the full flavor and import of the many medical terms derived from these languages. Besides the resultant risk of imprecision in their daily usage of professional terminology, they run the risk of echolalia.
