CLASSICS 2MT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Classical Compound, Medical Terminology, Neurosis
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Electr/o/encephal/o/graph/ic/al/ly: it"s an adverb, by using ^ [to examine a patient] . Some words aren"t clearly medical, but are used to illustrate certain terminations and/or combining forms. When it comes time to tests will only get medical things, no non-sense words. The ic is making it an adjective, but it" on its own doesn"t mean anything to it. Standard formulation a noun word that you"re using to make it an adjective pertaining to". Adjectives don"t: it inflammation, ic pertaining to. Pertaining to the inflammation of resembling the larynx what comes in front of it is". Pertaining to the inflammation of something resembling the larynx (larynxes?: if this thing does exist as a word and if it existed in the medical dictionary, medical terminology always assume it"s one person. Rupture: the tearing apart of a tissue (or an organ) For x-o/rrhex/is we say the rupturing of blood . Watching out on test, assume that the thing can be ruptured.