Medical jargon (Part 1)

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Medical jargon (Part 1) (Teacher: Michael)

Computer buff colleagues baffle me with of hardware, software and megabytes, just as photographer friends mystify me with of apertures, emulsions and push-processing. But the medical profession is more renowned for its jargon - an industry's language for professionals to communicate with each other.

Doctors not to one another quickly and efficiently if everything they to constantly explained or into plain language. If a surgeon removes an organ, the operation is called an 'ectomy', a hysterectomy, the removal of the womb, or appendectomy, removing the appendix, or a tonsillectomy for taking tonsils. But if he tinkers about with bits of bone and takes some to correct a deformity, it is an osteotomy. Taking blood for testing from a vein is called a phlebotomy, although health care professionals hardly ever the .

This is not to confused with phlegmatic, which is to with the stuff you cough ! There other funny sounding terms such as dysgeusia, which a disturbance of taste, and anosmia - a complete loss of the of smell.

Dysphonia denotes difficulty in speaking and the cause of the problem is often laryngitis, which is also a brute to spell. 'Itis' inflammation. If a tendon is involved this is called tenosynovitis, a common problem affecting the wrist or elbow because, of strains imposed by modem machines and repetitive such as working a keyboard.

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