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How To Understand Medical Terms by Khan1993: 12:49am On Oct 06, 2014 |
I am a prospective medical student. There is this aura of feeling that medical student are gurus. Not disputing this o but i dont like it when people tag then that.. We are just normal student like anybody else. To why i created this topic, the average nigerian student will get dizzy just glancing at a medical student notes. Why? Just because of the term used.. So here i want to believe have been able to make even an economics student understand some of the terms using various webs research(non plagiarism here)... The Basics To begin, it must be understood that most medical terminology derives from Latin or Greek. If you didn't study these in school, or even if you did, I suggest you visit the local library and check out a medical dictionary (or perhaps your doctor will let you borrow one). Dorland's Medical Dictionary is a handy one to start with. By no means will you become an expert overnight -- remember, it takes years for that. But at least if you can understand some of the words and how they're formed, you'll be well on your way toward making sense of what you read and hear at treatment updates regarding new medications and research data. Start by looking at the whole word in question. For example "pancytopenia." Then break it down into its various parts. Pan-cyto-penia. In this example, pan means "all" or "total," cyto refers to cells, and penia indicates a deficiency. So the definition of pancytopenia is a deficiency of all blood cells. Got it? O.K. Let's try another one. How about "lipodystrophy" (I know that's a favorite). Let's break it down. Lipo refers to fat; trophy is talking about growth or development. And anything with the word dys in it has an abnormality. So there it is! Lipodystrophy: An abnormal development of fat. Anyone for liposuction? Here's an even simpler one, "leukocyte." We've already learned that cyto refers to cells. If you look up the definition of leuko, you'll see that it means white. So a leukocyte would be a white blood cell. Ta- Da! It should now be easy to figure out what leukocytopenia means. And if you knew that erythro means red, how would you say "deficiency of red blood cells" in medical-ese? Yeah.. Go on..try it.. Erythrocytopenia... Good... now if you are so keen on getting this right.. Follow this link Http://thebody.com/content/art13571.html.. Mind you those gurus took 6 years to get this right o 2 Likes |
Re: How To Understand Medical Terms by Donfamous(m): 4:31am On Oct 06, 2014 |
Good one op, so helpful. But d link isn't usable |
Re: How To Understand Medical Terms by Khan1993: 8:12am On Oct 06, 2014 |
Re: How To Understand Medical Terms by Hughehade01: 10:36am On Mar 11 |
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