Angiology

ANGIOLOGY, angiologia (from Greek angeion-vessel and logos-study), a term which in antiquity denoted a surgical operation on blood vessels, of which Galen already makes mention. The word angeion among the Greeks generally denoted vessels for various purposes and even dwellings; angeia were also called various types of vessels and ducts in the bodies of animals and humans containing liquid, blood, or air (bile ducts, lungs, salivary ducts, urethra, etc.). In the understanding of surgeons of old times, the word 'lego' meant 'I find', in anatomical application as 'I treat something'. The word 'angio-logia' as the study only of blood and lymphatic vessels, as well as the words myo-logia, neurologia, splanchnologia, etc., was first introduced in the first quarter of the 18th century by Heister^JOM (Compendium anatomicum, 1717).