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gynecology or gynaecology

Term: gynecology or gynaecology

Origin: Anc Greek γυνή/gyne (=woman, female)+ (-λογία/ -logia)(=suffix meaning study of, discourse)

γυνή > genitive γυναικός/gynecos > γόνος/gonos(=offspring) + ίκω/ico(=carry)

Coined: Most of the surviving gynaecological treatises come from the Hippocratic corpus and probably date to the late 5th and early 4th cents. bc.
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the father of modern gynecology is considered the ancient Greek physician Soranus of Ephesus ((1st/2nd century)  with his treatise Gynecology (there is a 6th-cen Latin translation by one Muscio and in  Byzantine times, the work was translated into Greek)
Definition:

The branch of medicine that deals with the  female reproductive system  

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