• Bovine G

• Greek World / history
• Hippocrates
• History of Medicine
• Linguistics
• Roman World / history
• Subluxation / history
• Terminology as Topic

The origins and early definitions of the word 'subluxation' are reviewed, tracing back the concept to the Greeks and Hippocrates.  The Greeks used the word pararthrema to describe partial luxation.  Classical Latin did not have a word for subluxation, and used other words to describe it.  Because of the paucity of technical medical words in Latin, the Romans either used Greek words, or changed them into Latin language.  In similar fashion, in 1532 the Italian translator Giovanni Bernardo Feliciano created the words subluxatio, subluxantur, subluxationibus to have a suitable substitute for the Greek word pararthrema.  A discussion of the translator Feliciano follows.

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