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Medical jargon (Part 1) (Teacher: Michael)
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of hardware, software and megabytes, just as photographer friends mystify me with
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of apertures, emulsions and push-processing. But the medical profession is
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more renowned for its jargon - an industry's
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language for professionals to communicate with each other.
Doctors
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to one another quickly and efficiently if everything they
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constantly explained or
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into plain language. If a surgeon removes an organ, the operation is called an 'ectomy',
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a hysterectomy, the removal of the womb, or appendectomy, removing the appendix, or a tonsillectomy for taking
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tonsils. But if he tinkers about with bits of bone and takes some
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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
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This is not to
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confused with phlegmatic, which is to
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with the stuff you cough
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other funny sounding terms such as dysgeusia, which
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a disturbance of taste, and anosmia - a complete loss of the
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of smell.
Dysphonia denotes difficulty in speaking and the cause of the problem is often laryngitis, which is also a brute to spell. 'Itis'
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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
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