Aproximación al léxico anatómico del Renacimiento.

Abstract

Juan Valverde de Amusco plays a prominent role in the development of the anatomical terminology in Spanish with his work, Historia de la composición del cuerpo humano (1556), the first post-Vesalian anatomical atlas in Spanish. He contributed to the restitution of some of
the traditional Greek and Latin terms, incorporating them into a comprehensible scientific text to the receivers of this work: the surgeons who did not know Latin in the 16th century. The loanwords of his text, reflect of the Latin words used at that time, together with some personal neologisms used in his translation work, provide us with a rich statement of the development
of the anatomical knowledge and the conceptual divergences in the discipline among the anatomists.