Medical Terminology / Unit 1 MedTerm 0028 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Latin Terms Borrowed Whole
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The idea
Some medical terms are complete Latin words or phrases carried into English unchanged.
In practice
In vitro means in a glass; placebo means I shall please.
Where people slip
These keep Latin plurals and Latin word order, so English rules applied to them will mislead.
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