CLASSICS 2MT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Medical Dictionary, Gender Dysphoria

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLASSICS 2MT3
• Professor: Stephen Russell

Document Summary

Taking apart medical terms and talking about how they are built. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (cte), term came into existence in 2008. It is a disease of the brain pertaining to wounds, trauma and time (chronus) A disease if the brain pertaining to wounds pertaining to time. Medical dictionary definition: a disease of the brain pertaining to repeated wounds. Medical terminology is a language that people in the medical field constantly adapt and change. A (cid:374)ou(cid:374) that e(cid:374)ds i(cid:374) (cid:862)ia(cid:863) is a(cid:374) a(cid:271)(cid:374)or(cid:373)al (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374) Alges is a variation in the term algea which means pain. Whe(cid:374) (cid:455)ou sti(cid:272)k a (cid:862)a(cid:863) or (cid:862)a(cid:374)(cid:863) i(cid:374) fro(cid:374)t of a word, it takes away the meaning so analgesia means lack of pain. Analgesia is an abnormal condition involving the lack of pain. Ics means the science of, bar means weight or pressure. We"ll lear(cid:374) to defi(cid:374)e it as (cid:862)the s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e of the heali(cid:374)g of pressure/(cid:449)eight(cid:863)