Origin: Greek

Gr. bradys  = slow and kardia = heart. Refers to a slow heart beat.

Gr. bronchus  = windpipe, originally from Gr. brechein = to moisten. Plato believed that swallowed liquids went down the trachea into the bronchi.

Gr. kalyx = husk or cup. A term applied especially to the recesses in the pelvis of the kidney (Pl: Calices).

Gr. kanthos  = corner of the eye.

Gr. karkinos = a crab, and -oma = tumor or neoplasm. Celsus used the word carcinoma for all malignant growths, but added the adjective kakoethes = malignant to designate some which required…

Gr. kardia = heart. Used to denote the end of the stomach lying nearest the heart.

Gr. karoun = to put to sleep. In early Greece, jokesters used to cause goats to fall down motionless by pressure on these arteries. This is because horses and goats…

Gr. koilia = the belly.

Gr. kephale = head.