Medical Terminology / Unit 1 MedTerm 0023 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Error: Decoding an Eponym
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The idea
Decoding an eponym produces a meaning the term does not carry, because the term was never built from word parts in the first place.
In practice
Bell palsy has nothing to do with a bell.
Where people slip
When a decode returns something absurd, check whether the term is a name before assuming the decode was done wrong.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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