Adoption of azygos, hemiazygos, and dartos

Exceptions to the anatomical nomenclature rule that names must be in proper Latin include a few terms that contain borrowed Greek adjectives that are not declined like Latin words. Adoption of these adjectives into Latin would change about a half‐dozen terms, e.g., vena azyga , vena hemiazyga , and fascia darta . The anatomical nomenclature rules apply only to the Latin terms, so there is no requirement to alter the way azygos , hemiazygos , and dartos are used in equivalent terms in other languages. Clin. Anat. 30:450–451, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.