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Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.
One way to organize the merge would be to erase each root or prefix, etc. as it is merged. This is not a ten-minute project. --Uncle Ed 16:01, 31 January 2008 (UTC) I just discovered that Medical terminology#Medical terminology also duplicates word roots. Cburnett 16:12, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Prefixes do not normally require further modification to be added to a word root because the prefix normally ends in a vowel or vowel sound, although in some cases they may assimilate slightly and an in-may change to im-or syn-to sym-. Suffixes are attached to the end of a word root to add meaning such as condition, disease process, or procedure.
This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...
not significant: NS: normal saline: NSA: no significant abnormality NSAID: nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug: NSBB: Non-selective beta blocker: NSCC: Non-squamous-cell carcinoma NSCLC: non–small cell lung carcinoma: NSD: normal spontaneous delivery (see childbirth) NSE: neurospecific enolase: NSIP: Non-specific interstitial pneumonia: NSR ...
Sortable table Abbreviation Meaning Δ: diagnosis; change: ΔΔ: differential diagnosis (the list of possible diagnoses, and the effort to narrow that list) +ve: positive (as in the result of a test)
Dorsal and ventral: In animals with linear nervous systems, the term dorsal (from the Latin dorsum, meaning "back") is synonymous with superior and the term ventral (from the Latin venter, meaning "belly") is synonymous with inferior. In humans, however, the terminology differs on either side of the midbrain-diencephalic junction.
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