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What is medical terminology?
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The language of medicine
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Who developed/created medical terminology?
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Hippocrates (Greek father of medicine) and Aristotle (Greek father of philosophy) nearly 3,000 yrs ago
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What are eponyms?
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Words based on the personal names of people to describe a disease or body part (i.e Hodgkin's lymphoma)
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What is an acronym?
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A word created from abbreviations or from the first letters of a group of words (i.e CAT scan - computed axial tomography scan)
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What are the four word parts that medical terms re constructed from?
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Word roots, prefixes, suffixes and combining vowels
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Arter, arteri
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Artery
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Arthr
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Joint
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Card, cardi
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Heart
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Gastr
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Stomach
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Hepat
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Liver
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Later
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Side
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Norm
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A common state
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Oste
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Bone
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Path
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Disease
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Tens
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Pressure
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