"barbie gee" > wrote in message
hcrg.pbz...
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> On Fri, 27 May 2016, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> I don't know what paresis is. I did look it up. Means partial paralysis.
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> many common medical terms have Latin or Greek word origins;
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> "gastroparesis" comes from two words;
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> gastro = "of or relating to the stomach"
> paresis = "a condition of muscular weakness caused by nerve damage or
> disease; partial paralysis."
> His using "paresis" may have been shorthand for the full term,
> "gastroparesis".
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> another example is when you see "-itis" at the end of a medical term, it's
> an "inflammation of"
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> "gastritis" is an inflammation of the stomach.
> (gastr(o) and itis)
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> "appendicitis" is an inflammation of the appendix.
> (appendi(x) and (c)itis)
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> It helps to know some of these Latin word parts so when we go to the
> doctor and they give us some medical diagnosis, we can have a clue of what
> it is, without having to resort to a dictionary.
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> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_roots,_suffixes_and_prefixes>
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I know a lot of medical terms. Just never heard that one before.