This study investigated vocabulary size and vocabulary composition in Greek children aged 1;6 to 2;11 using a Greek adaptation of Rescorla's Language Development Survey (LDS; Rescorla, 1989). Participants were 273 toddlers coming from monolingual Greek-speaking families. Greek LDS data were compared with US LDS data obtained from the instrument's normative sample (Achenbach & Rescorla, 2000). V...

Background: Various studies that have been published to date concerning the Greek population, examine family violence only from the sociological perspective while attempting to correlate it with the socio-demographic data of the perpetrator and the victim. Aims: This study makes an effort to investigate the phenomenon from the perspective of forensic clinical medicine while it simultaneously at...

In this article, we study the structures that the Greek language employs to express quantification. By Greek, I am referring to the contemporary Greek spoken in the countries of Greece and Cyprus (an estimated total of 14 million speakers), and Greeks in diaspora (an estimated 5–6 million). It has long been customary, especially in the study of classics, to use the term ‘Greek’ to refer to the ...

While the role of Greeks in development early western medicine is well-known and appreciated, contributions modern Greek medical practitioners are less known often overlooked. On occasion 200-year anniversary War Independence, this review article sheds light onto achievements scientists descent cardiology, cardiac surgery, cardiovascular research, through a short history these fields related in...

In ancient history, the most prominent writer on plant drugs was Dioscorides, “the father of pharmacognosy”. Between about 50-70 A.D. he wrote his fundamental work “De Materia Medica.” It destined to be one famous books pharmacology and medicine but is also rich in horticulture ecology. This classical medicine, translated many times, offers plenty data medical plants constituting basic materia ...

Matter of Semantics To the Editor: The recent article by Kalra et al1 reiterates the use of the term “hibernating myocardium,” which was introduced by Diamond et al in 19782 to indicate a state of chronically ischemic noninfarcted myocardium. The term is incorrect and should be abandoned. In Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, hibernation is defined as “the dormant state in which certain ...

The Hippocratic Corpus-that collection of anonymous medical texts from the fifth, fourth, and later centuries B.C.-is like an archaeological site. Some of the buildings are still complete, but we have lost the architectural context in which they once stood. Some are mere fragments, parts of a fagade, or foundations from which we have to reconstruct imaginatively the original elevation. There ar...

The article is dedicated to the description of origins medical terminology. A brief historical note on earliest written sources that have come down us starting with Egyptian treatises in hieroglyphs papyrus given. contribution development terminology such great scientists and philosophers antiquity as Alcmaeon Croton, Homer, Aristotle, Hippocrates followers his school, Hippocratics, considered....

Lloyd asks who claimed to possess specialist knowledge of the body, and what it was used for. In both cultures the body was seen as a symbol of order. In Chinese medicine there was a greater interest in the social hierarchy of organs, but also the free flow of qi was seen as essential for health. Analogies between body and state were used to show that political health depended on the ruler's vi...

This paper describes the Cypriot Greek speech database collected in the framework of the European project OrienTel (IST-200028373) and the acoustic models adaptation techniques that were applied in order to perform dialect adaptation from Greek to Cypriot. Greek and Cypriot Greek share the same phoneme set. However, there are some differences in the way the same phonemes are pronounced. That is...