Medical Terminology / Unit 1 MedTerm 0019 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Decoding a Term You Have Never Seen
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The idea
An unfamiliar medical term is decoded by the same three steps, working from the known parts and naming the unknown ones rather than guessing.
In practice
The term *splenomegaly*, worked cold.
Where people slip
The decode is allowed to end in a partial answer. A partial answer that names the gap is more useful than a complete answer that was invented.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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