Skip to main content

Error: Treating Two Roots as Two Structures

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

State

Assuming a Greek root and a Latin root name different structures invents an anatomy that does not exist.

Show

Ren slash o and nephr slash o both name the kidney. There is no second organ.

Watch for

Neither root is more correct. Which one a term uses is fixed by convention, not by rule.