Tips for learning medical terms
Some words look difficult to pronounce, spell, and even to understand the meanings and could be overwhelming learning medical terminology.
Other than memorization, what are some things you might do to make it easier to learn medical terms?
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A lot of medical and scientific words come from Latin. This is not to suggest that you needed to know Latin or learn it, as a prerequisite, however that can be where it breaks down. Those words are not necessarily from our orientation of German, and other languages, for which English borrows.
It might sound quirky but taking (for example) a very simple word differentiation like desert and dessert, I come up with a little thing like ‘strawberry shortcake,’ for …