Medical Terminology / Unit 1 MedTerm 0020 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Error: Decoding Front to Back
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The idea
Reading a medical term from its first letter forward states the modifier before the thing modified and produces a backwards definition.
In practice
Read front to back, hepatomegaly becomes liver enlargement rather than enlargement of the liver.
Where people slip
With three parts or more, front-to-back reading fails outright instead of reading awkwardly.
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