Mersin Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Lokman Hekim Tıp Tarihi ve Folklorik Tıp Dergisi

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Zeki Zeren, was born in 1900 in Istanbul, died in the same city in 1973. After graduating from Istanbul Darülfünun, Faculty of Medicine in 1923, he worked as an assistant and chief assistant in the fields of anatomy and surgery, and as an surgeon and chief physician in some cities in Turkey. His academic life, which started in 1933, continued until shortly before his death. He made important contributions to the development of anatomy teaching, research and practical dissection studies in Turkey. He made an intense effort to transform medical terms from Ottoman terminology to Turkish, to collect and organize many anatomical terminology that we use today without being strange in Turkish, to provide a systematic and topographic anatomy collection with their Latin equivalents. Zeren's publications, collaborative works, and especially his dictionary containing anatomy terms, which were used as a textbook for many years, were effective in filling a large gap. Zeki Zeren had many publications in national and international scientific and various journals. Zeren should be considered not only as an academician who has worked in the scientific field, but also as an active activist in the fields of culture and civilization in his own time.