HLTH 2300 Study Guide - Spring 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes -
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Allows health care professionals to be clear, communicate quickly, and comfort patients. Made up primarily of words taken from two ancient languages: greek and latin. Formed by including the name of the person who discovered or invented whatever is being described. Sometimes an eponym is named in honor of the disease"s first or most noteworthy diagnosed victim (ex: lou gehrig"s disease) Acronym - acro (high, end) + onyma (name) Made up of the first letters of each of the words that make up a phrase (ex. The foundations of western medicine were in ancient greece and rome. Hippocratic oath named after and composed by a man named. Hippocrates who lived in greece from 460 to 370 bc (father of. Latin was the global language of the scientific revolution. Medical language is not words to be memorized, but sentences to be translated. 1. 4 how to pronounce terms associated with medical language. The last syllable is called the ultima, which means "last"
