Translating Greek Technical Terminology Into Arabic

Most medical authors would have just had to work with the Arabic versions that were given to them by the translators. The people of whom we know and whom we admire kind of the luminaries of the Arabic medical traditions, like Arrezi, Ibn Sinavicena and others, they totally relied on the translations. There were three procedures or three ways in which the Greek vocabulary was adapted and adopted. For instance alopecia is then translated into Arabic as darathalab - literally the disease of the fox.