Human morphological terminology is daily used by many groups of people: scientists, physicians, dentists, nurses, paramedical specialists, teachers and students of medicine but also by teachers and students of basic and secondary schools, translators, and in justice. It facilitates communication between such people from different countries of the world.
It is both descriptive and functional and covers gross anatomy, histology, cytology and embryology. It is arranged according to the body structure and its systematisation or according to the time line in embryology.